SHOT BY HER FATHER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15500, 6 January 1914, Page 8

SHOT BY HER FATHER.

CHARGE MEANT FOR A CAt | ACCIDENT FEAR CHBISTfJHDBt^S ! [BT ' TELEGRAPH.—PBESS ASSOCIATION. I "' "'■*- ■ Ckristchurch, ilo.iiv -V '■ A distressing shooting fatality occurred • ' at Stoke, near Cust, at 5.30 r .m. on Sat»day, the victim of the accident bejJw., J Ethel Doreen Tailott, a little girl Ixstyjl ."-\ seven and eight years of age. Her father, H. Tallott, = a welj-kw ' J farmer, and a member of the P.ar,gJo' ~r County Council, took his gun into (V •'■ scullery to shoot through the » ■'■" a cat which Lad been destroying ft. chickens. The child, who was waiting?-' round the corner of the house with. C'.'..' sister to see the shooting, ran out and 77 picked up a milk can standing in the y it A '■'. and carried it ovS of the way. Talloif thought she had taken it back with her':'but she had gone with it into the wa-jj' \ house opposite the window. "'. The sister called out to Ethel Tallott v! to ?ook out as the gun was going to b fired, but she evidently did not hear, fa' " just as Tallott. took aim and fired' sb"ff ; stepped out from the wash-house and is. ceived a full charge of shot in her rial*,/, breast. Instantaneous (loath resulted. As ~ >? inquest was held to-day, when a verdict (J of accidental death was returned. ■-'If? fi