Accidents and Fatalities.
m (Per Press Association.) TIMAEU; January 25. A gun accident which resulted fatally happened in the bush at Cannington yesterday. Two men, Joseph and David Gibson, cousins, were out cutting stakes and fencing. Tho latter, who took his gun with him, left work to shoot some birds and rabbits. He tripped over some logs and the charge exploding entered his stomach. The injured man died two hours later. Deceased was a single man, about 42 years of age. At the inquest to-day the jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8198, 26 January 1906, Page 7
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