A GIRL SHOT BY A BOY.
A shooting case is reported from Walbundale, near Albury. A little girl named Alice Paraby was playing with a little boy named Thomas Jones a few days ago, when the boy tried to kiss the girl, and on her resisting, and running home, he threatened to shoot her. Nothing was thought of the threat until the following day. when the boy encountered the girl, and fired off a gun, several pellets of shot entering the muscles of the girl's leg. The boy Jones has been arrested on a charge of maliciously wounding, and has been remanded, pending the girl's recovery.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9179, 8 October 1888, Page 5
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106A GIRL SHOT BY A BOY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9179, 8 October 1888, Page 5
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