DISTRESSING FATALITY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 632, 7 January 1914, Page 5

DISTRESSING FATALITY.

FATHER SHOOTS HIS DAUGHTER

WHEN FIRING AT A CAT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, Monday. A distressing Bhooting fatality occurred at Stoke, near Cust, at 5.30 p.m. on Saturday, ihe victim of the accident being Ethel Doreen Tallott, a little girl between seven and eight years of age. Her father, H. Tallott,a well-known farmer, and a m?mberof the Rangiora County Council, took his gun into the scullery to Bhoo' through the window at a cat which l.:id been destroying his chickens. The i hild, who was waiting round the corne : of the house with her sistar to see the shooting, ran out and picked up a milk can standing in the yard and carried it out of the way. Tallott thought she had taken it back with her, but she had gone with it into the washouse opposite the window. The sister called out to Ethel Tallott to look )ut as tha gun was going to be fired, but she evidently did not hear, for jußt as Tallott took aim and fired she stepped out from the washhouse and received a full charge of shot in her right breast. Instantaneous death resulted. An inquest was held when a verdict of accidental death was returned.