FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.
(By Telegraph.) DUNEDIN, Junb 22. A young lad named Charles Ernest Towsey was killed yesterday by the discharge of a small rifle, with which he had intended to go out rabbit shooting. Ho appears to have put away the rifle loaded, and m taking down hia clothes it is supposed it fell and exploded. The bullet entered his right eye. He was a High School pupil, and his father lives m Melbourne.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3965, 23 June 1887, Page 2
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75FATAL GUN ACCIDENT. Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3965, 23 June 1887, Page 2
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