SON SHOT BY HIS FATHER
RABBIT SHOOTING TRAGEDY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, July 9. At Glen Alassey on Sunday David Kerr, an employee of the brick works, and his two sons went shooting. One son, William, fired at a rabbit on the other side of the fence and wounded it. The second son David, aged 11, dived through the fence after the rabbit just as his father fired. The bullet struck the boy in the head, killing him instantaneously. „ w At the inquest yesterday Air. -EPlatts, the coroner, returned a verdict of accidentally shot.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1929, Page 7
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