ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.
A SAD FATALITY
[PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.]
THAMES, Feb. 10. v A sad fatality occurred at Parawai, near Thames, last night, by which Alexander Dunlop, a son of a wellknown resident, received wounds from accidental shooting, which resulted in his death soon after. Dunlop, who was aged 24, was in a bedroom cleaning a gun, and it is presumed that after cleaning the weapon he loaded it, and was in the act of putting it away when the trigger caught on a. box.' Dunlop received a fearful wound in the abdomen. Medical assistance was called, but- the man was dead before the doctor arrived. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3752, 11 February 1913, Page 5
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116ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3752, 11 February 1913, Page 5
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