GIRLISH PRANK.
ENDS IN TRAGEDY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT PARIS. Feb. 21. Two girls, the friends of a farmer named Tixier, knowing that he was travelling home by a lonely road, decided to play a prank. Dressed as men they jumped out of a hedge and shouted: “Hands up ! ’ Tixier, who was can y ing a' sporting gun, thinking he was being attacked bv real bandits, fired and killed one gi rl.
The magistrate discharged Tixier on the ground that he believed himself to be acting .in legitimate self-defence.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 February 1925, Page 3
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88GIRLISH PRANK. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 February 1925, Page 3
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