Shocking Gun Accident.
A LITTLE BOY SHOOTS HIS BROTHER. A shocking shooting affair took place at Blenheim on Saturday morning. Norman, a boy of 11, a son of a merchant's clerk named Winsianley, pointed a loaded carbine at his brother Oswald, a lad of 10, who was lying in bed, and pulled the trigger. The elder boy was unaware that the piece was loaded, and the younger boy's brains were biown out on the pillow. The boys were both cadets, and had been at skirmishing drill on the previous day, and the elder had inserted a pitoe of lead into his carbine for practicing shooting at a mark. He was handling the carbine in the bedroom in the morning, showing his brother how to drop on one knee to resist cavalry, the weapon resting on the lloor at half-cock, when it accidentally went oil, Heath was instantaneous.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1751, 26 October 1885, Page 3
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147Shocking Gun Accident. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1751, 26 October 1885, Page 3
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