FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDENT
DEATH OF A PROMINENT WELLINGTON ATHLETE
[PBR PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
Wellington, This day
A sad case of accidental shooting happened in the Wainuiomata district yesterday morning. A young man named Herbert Palmer, aged 27, a clerk in the circulation branch of the General Post Office, Wellington, was out pigeon shooting with his brother and two boys.
Herbert fired and brought down a pigeon, and rested the gun against his thigh while he put the pigeon in his bag. While doing this, he heard a flutter in a tree above and snatched the gun to have a shot. As he caught hold of the gun it went off, and he received the charge in his left thigh, the shot blowing a hole clean through it.
The poor fellow bled to death in a few minutes, being fully conscious almost up to the last that the wound was a fatal one. The body was brought into the Hutt. Palmer had only returned from ‘Frisco, where he had gone for a trip as mail agent.
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