GUN FATALITY.
ASHBURTON, Juno 11. A distressing gun accident, which ended fatally} occurred.,at Mitcham yesterday afternoon, the victim b;>ing a lad 17 years of age named John Booth, a blacksmith's apprentice. It appears that Booth was in the act of shooting some fowls with a breech-loading gun, and"being anxious to save a large cartridge which was in the gun—which had tho -hammers up—he picked up a- stone to hurl, at the fowls on the. roof of a shed, when, the gun aocidently exploded and. the full charge entered his right side. The lad was taken to the A&hbtirton Hospital, where he died At 3 o'clock this morning.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12239, 12 June 1909, Page 4
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107GUN FATALITY. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12239, 12 June 1909, Page 4
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