Fatal Ending to Game
(Per Press Association.) MASTERTON, Feb. 23. A children’s game of cowboys and Indians ended in a tragedy at Lanadowne, yesterday afternoon, when Allan Dewar, aged eight years, son of Mr. and Airs. E. T. Dewar was shot in the head with a shotgun by a companion and died later, in hospital. The children did not know that the gun was loaded.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 44, 24 February 1944, Page 4
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65Fatal Ending to Game Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 44, 24 February 1944, Page 4
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