SHOOTING IN A PUBLIC PLACED
|| [by telegraph-press association.] InvehCARGILL, Monday. 1 A youth was fined £4 14s to-day for firing H a gun in a public place, and wilfully damag- |§ ing the shelter shed at Tisbury station. He ; M ' denied that he fired wilfully, alleging that as.; i the locks would not stand half-cock he car--1 ried at fullcock. The gun struck against a •V •••■■ doorway and one barrel was fired by the ■ shock. Some boys deposed . that they saw ■:.:""-■ him put the gun to his shoulder. Major ' Well said such men'.as .the accused ■.V should not be allowed at large with a loaded .:■■■'••' gun with children about at night. He mignc y-\: think himself lucky that he was not charged; i ;'..:. With manslaughter. . '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10838, 23 August 1898, Page 5
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