FATALLY SHOT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21026, 3 May 1938, Page 7

FATALLY SHOT

DEER-STALKING TRAGEDY By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, May 2. A tragedy occurred on a deer-stalk-ing expedition at Greenvale, near Gore, about 3 pm. yesterday, when James Ralph Clark, aged 15, son of a widow, of Bay Road, Waltati, was fatally shot. In company with two other youths, John Allan, of Waltati,. and Leonard Ritchie, of Gore, Clark, who was not carrying a rifle set out on a deerstalking expedition on the prop-rty of Messrs H. R. £>”d F. Henderson. The members of the party separated and not long after Allan saw a clump of manuka b"ing disturbed. Evidently thinking a deer caused the movement he aimed his .303 rifle and fired into the bush. On investlgr. ting he found that it was Clark at whom ne nad unknowingly fired. An examination show’ed that Clark had been shot through the groin and was still alive.

Hurriedly mien and Ritchie made a stretcher. When Clark had been made as comfortable as passible the party set out on their return across di icult country through dense bush to the homertead. Before they reached it, however, Clark had died. The ody was brought to Gore and an inquest was to be held this morning.