A FATAL MISTAKE.
MAN SHOT FOR WILD PIGS. IsyEHOAßGiiiti, to-day. —On Thursday evening a farmer living at Wyndham Valley, named Neil McDonald, and a friend named Robertson, went out to shoot wild pigs, which had been destroying oats in stook. They took up kneeling positions among the oats, so as to be ready. While they were so placed a party of four, who had scoured a good bit of country after pigs, came up behind McDonald and his mate. One of the newcomers, a youth named Johnston, seeing the men kneeling with their backs to him, concluded that they were pigs and fired, putting-two bullets into McDonald's body, one through the shoulder and the other through his loins. The man died before morning. He was 40 years of age, and only recently married. Johnston has given himself up'to the police.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6911, 24 February 1894, Page 2
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140A FATAL MISTAKE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6911, 24 February 1894, Page 2
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