FATALLY SHOT.
BOY SHOOTS HIS MOTHER. THE PEA- RIFLE AGAIN. by Telegraph.-Presa Association. Chrtetchurch, Last Night - At 2.30 this afternoon a boy named Crosbery, obout 15 years of age, fatally shot his mother with a pea rfie. It appears that Mrs. Crosbery had occasion to reprimand him for some trivial duty he omitted to perform, and the boy took up the pea rifle, and, pointing it at his mother, said: "111 shoot you." The weapon went off, the bullet entering the right cheek, worked downwards and out of her left jaw. The boy explained to the police thai lie forgot he had inserted a cartridge . in the weapon in the morning for the purpose of shooting eparrows. He had also pointed a rifle at his married sister the night before and plavfully said ae would shoot her.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 173, 14 August 1909, Page 2
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