SHOOTING TRAGEDY
YOUNG MAN KILLED BY MATE. A FOOLISH ACTION. Preu Association—By Telegraph—Copyii|ht. HOBART, August 30. A young man named Alfred Britton reported to the police that while he and another young man named Charles Jones were hunting on Mount Faulkner on 1 Wednesday last Jones accidentally shot himself. Britton has now confessed that he shot Jones. He states that after hunting all the morning they made another start in the afternoon. A dispute arose about who slionld use the double-barrelled gun. Jones clicked the hamtner of the gun «it Britton, who pointed his gun and pulled the trigger, whereupon Jones fell dead. Britton adds: "I did not know that my gun was loaded.''
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15857, 1 September 1913, Page 5
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114SHOOTING TRAGEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 15857, 1 September 1913, Page 5
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