YOUNG MAN SHOT
FRIEND'S FOOLISH ACT.
DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS LOADED
[By Electric Telegram—Copyright! [United Press Association.] (Received 9.35 a.m.) 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 at Mt. Faulkner on Wednesday, Jones accidentally shot himself. Britton has now confessed that die shot Jones. He stated that after hunting all the morning they made another start in the afternoon.
A dispute arose about who would use the double-barrelled gun. Jones clicked the hammer of the gun at Britton, and the latter pointed his gun and pulled the trigger, and Jones fell dead. .
Britton declares that he did not know that the gun was loaded.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 99, 30 August 1913, Page 5
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