Shooting Galleries.
(Per Freaa AMociation).
HAWEBA, January 4. In connection with the fatal shooting of the boy Peebles at Normanby on Bgp ing Day, at the Police Court to-day :he police withdrew the information few manslaughter against Thomas Gilroy, owner of the gallery and proceeded under the 152 nd section of the Criminal Code Act, which provides that everyone who has in his charge anything which, in the absence of precaution or care, may endanger hu. man life, is under a legal duty to take reasonable precaution against and use reasonable care to avoid such danger. Witnesses stated that Gilroy used reasonable precautions.
The Bench dismissed the case and in doing so referred to the want of regulations governing the use of shooting galleries. They considered that those societies which benefitted from the use of the galleries s-hould take every care in the interest of public safety.
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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9833, 4 January 1901, Page 2
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