FATAL JOKE.
YOUTH’S TRAGIC DEATH,
LODAED SERVICE REVOLVER,
MELBOURNE, July 15. Picking up a German servico revolver war souvenir at his home last night, Norman Eric Leverton, aged 18. of Pender Street. Thornbury, placed the revolver to his temple, and jokingly remarked: “This is how it is done,” at the same time pulling the trigger. Then, to the amazement of his friends, there was an explosion, and a bullet entered the unfortunate youth’s head above the right eye. The bullet emerged from the back of his skull, and lodged in the wall behind him. Leverton died instantly.
A boarder in the house had brought, tho ,a few minutes before.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 208, 1 August 1928, Page 7
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