BOY SHOT DEAD
Distressing Accident By Telegraph—Press Association WANGANUI, December 18. Andrew Gordon Martin, aged 11, No. Three Line, Wanganui, was accidentally shot at his home this afternoon by his brother, Colin, aged nine. It appears that the two brothers and another boy found a shot-gun in the house, and when the younger brother was handling it it went off, the charge penetrating the elder boy's back. Death was Instantaneous.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21841, 19 December 1940, Page 4
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70BOY SHOT DEAD Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21841, 19 December 1940, Page 4
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