A BOY SHOT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14014, 20 September 1909, Page 3

A BOY SHOT.

DUKEpIN, Sept. 19. . Yesterday morning, at Southbridge, sear Milton, Herbert Thompaon, whoae people reside at Milton, was killed * owing -to a pea-rifle accident. Thompson, Who was a lad of fifteen years, -worked for Pi Porter, a farmer, and was instructed to kill some fowls. The boy was. evidently executing the order when the fatality occurred. Ho was in the habit of killing fowls with hi* pea-rifle, which waa found discharged 1 *ing between a buggy and a farm im- . ofcrnent in a shed and sixteen yards awa* from where the lad was found. It iii anppoaed that the rifle knocked / tetinst' one of the implements and went off, and that' th* lad staggered to where ho finally fell.