Shooting Fatality

Hastings Standard, Volume X, Issue 5415, 30 January 1907, Page 3

Shooting Fatality

(Per Press Association). Dannevirke, January 30 A shootiDg fatality occurred in the bush at Tiratu yesterday afternoon. A settler named Thomas Preston, aged 25, single, was out after rabbits, and is supposed to have allowed his gun to fall when crossing a log. He received ths contents of the weapon above the heart, and was later on discovered dead. At the inquest this morning, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. Deceased came here about 15 months ago. His parents reside in the Waikato.