ANOTHER GUN ACCIDENT.
BOY SHOT DEAD
(Pet Press Association— Copyright) CHRISTCHURCH, July 9.
A shocking shooting fatality occurred in Rangiora. district yesterday afternoon. Th 0 victim was a boy of twelve years, Jas Beaton, second son of Peter Beaton, foreman for W. Cunningham on Coldstream farm, Gressons Road. Th© boy with an elder brother, Wilson Beaton, aged 17 years, left at two in the -afternoon with a shotgun and pearifle, intending, to- shoot sparrows in some trees about a chain away.
The elder hoy shot a sparrow with a pea rifle and his brother picked up the bird and ran hack to the house with it. On his return ho had to pass along the hack of a fowlhouse and the older lad, who was at the far end of this building, taking aim at a bird high up in tho tree, heard his brother coming towards him and dropped tho muzzle of the gun. Just as th© rifl© camo downy th© smaller hoy slipped out from behind the building and tho trigger was accidentally pulled, and he was shot through tho heart, dropping dead on th© spot. Tho brother rushed to th© house and told what he had- done.
Dr. Burnett was summoned from Rangiora and canto with all speed, only to find his services of no avail.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1917, Page 3
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219ANOTHER GUN ACCIDENT. Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1917, Page 3
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