A SAD ACCIDENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5, 6 January 1914, Page 3

A SAD ACCIDENT.

FATHER KILLS HIS CHILD. [Pee Press Association.] Christchurch, January 6.' A distressing shooting fatality occurred at Stoke, near Oust, at 5.30 p.m. on Saturday, the victim of the accident being Ethel Doreen Tallott, a little girl between seven and eight years of ago. Her father, H. Pallet, a well-known farmer and a member of the Rangiora County Council, took his gun into his scullery to shoot, through a window, a cat which had been destroying chickens. The child, who was waiting round the corner of the house, with her sister,, to see the shooting, raif out and picked np a milkcan which was standing in the yard, and carried it out of the way. Tallott thought that she had taken it back with her, hut she had gone with it into a washhouse opposite the window. Her sister called out to her to look out, as the gun was going to ho fired, hut she evidently did not hear. Just as Tallott took aim and fired she stepped out from the washhouse and received the full charge of shot in her right -breast, instantaneous death resulting. At an inquest to-day a verdict of accidental death was returned.