The Gun Accident.
♦ INQUEST AND VERDICT(BY TELEGRAPH.) (PER UNITED pnESS ASSOCIATION.) Blenheim, July 9. At the inquast on the body of the boy Thomas Smith, who was shot b* his brother on Saturday afternoon, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The gun had lain for some weeks loaded m the father's snop/and the brothher took it down to snap a cap on it. As he pulled the trigger ThomaSmith ram past, and the eh trge of shot entered his head, penetrating to the brain,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 183, 10 July 1883, Page 2
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