DISTRESSING FATALITY
CHILD SHOT WITH GUN FATHER UNDER ARREST At Riverstone recently an infant girl, says a Sydney newspaper, was shot through the chest with a shotgun. Subsequently her father was arrested and charged with manslaughter. The child, aged two, was playing in the kitchen of her home, while her mother was doing the washing in the adjoining laundry. Her father entered the room and commenced to play with his daughter. According to a statement made to the police, the man had a double-barrelled breech-loading shotgun, and allegedly pointed the gun at the_ child in play. Suddenly there was a deafening explosion, and thci child fell back, shot through the chest. The mother rushed into the room, and then the distracted parents carried the child more than half a mile for medical assistance. The child, however, had been killed instantly. The police arrested the father of the child.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21480, 2 May 1933, Page 11
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