SHOOTING TRAGEDY
SON ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS FATHER. By Telegraph—Press Association GISBORNE, May 7. A distressing tragedy occurred in Waimata Valley this afternoon, when Alexander Lyons Warrington, a blacksmith, residing at Waerengahika, was accidentally shot by his seventeen-year-old son, and died shortly afterwards.
The father and son were after pheasants, and were working up the river, the father being between thirty and forty yards from the son. One pheasant rose and flew in the direction of the father. The son fired, and the father called out that he was shot. The son rushed to the spot and found that his father had received the charge in the face and chest, the father dying within five minutes.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19484, 8 May 1933, Page 4
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114SHOOTING TRAGEDY Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19484, 8 May 1933, Page 4
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