GIRL FOUND SHOT

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19451, 15 December 1934, Page 14 (Supplement)

GIRL FOUND SHOT

A pretty girl of 19 and a youth, who had been sweethearts since their school days, were the principals in a poignant shooting mishap at Driffield, England, which resulted in the death of the girl. She was Nora Miriam Naylor, aged I'9, the youngest daughter of Mr Richard Naylor, a timber merchant, of Driffield, and her grief-stricken boyfriend is Clarence Frost, aged 17, son of Mr William Frost, a butcher, of Driffield. The young couple’s friendship was a boy and girl idyll. They saw as much of one another as possible, and when Frost, who is employed in a butcher’s business at Hull, came home lot his usual weekly half-holiday he i, spent the evening with his sweetheart. Went Rabbit Shooting. Irt accordance with their custom also, they met at about 7 a.m. in the morning, before Frost w»as due to return to Hull, and the youth, who is regarded as an excellent shot, took his gun with him to shoot rabbits and Wood pigeons as they tramped over

Sweetheart’s Idyll Ends in Tragedy. Boy Grief-stricken at Mishap.

the fields near the girl’s home. Solne time later Frost returned alone to his- sweetheart’s home and his distressed condition told the family that something serious had happened. He was sent home and a search of the fields was made. Nora’s body was found lying close to a stake fence in a field near to her heme. She had been shot in the head and the injury was so severe that death must have been instant. Frost was In such a state of collapse that he was put to bed at home and given a sleeping draught. It is assumed that- the gun went off accidentally as he was getting over the fence near which his sweetheart’s body was found. A curious feature of the affair is that 'Frost’s gun was discovered near King’s Mill sluice, half a mile from the scene of the tragedy. The fence Is about 4ft high and there is some v barbed wire at the top of it. Nora Naylor is the youngest of six daughters.