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Accidentally
Killed On
Hunting Trip
TAMWORTH, Monday.
-Eric George Calman, 21,
a nephew of CIB. chief,
Superintendent Calman,
was accidentally shot dead
when he tried to shoot a
snake while pig-hunting
near Moree to-day.
Calman, of Awaba Street,
Mosman, had been holiday
ing near Wearmatong Sta
tion, 30 miles west of
Moree.
Calman reached for a
rifle in a truck intending
to shoot a black snake.
He seized the rifle by the
barrel and pulled it to
wards him.
The trigger caught on a
projection and Caiman was
shot in the chest and died
instantly.
A police party left
Moree to-night for the
scene of the shooting about
seven miles . from the
station.
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