ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
SHOOTING FATALITY AT INGLE WOOD.
FPbr Pkubs Association.]
A little lad named Noble Taylor the son the Mr Alfred-Taylor, of the Windsor Road, Inglewood, met bis death bust evening as the result of a pea-rifle accident, in distressing circumstances. The Press Association reports that Ids brother, aged 19, picked up a pea rifle to shoot a hare, being unaware that it was loaded. On going out of the house he saw it was full cock and snapped the trigger. He was astounded to hear a report and see his little brother fall. A doctor was called in, and he sent the boy to the New Plymouth Hospital, where the little fellow died a few hours later. The elder boy had seen the rifle cleaned and put away empty on Wednesday, and it is not known how it came to be loaded.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 298, 15 December 1914, Page 3
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