Shot her through the head

The following melancholy accident happened at Southburne, near Great Driffield:- three or four warreners having been their rounds in the rabbet-warrens adjoining, on their return deposited their loaded pieces in the house of one of the party. Shortly afterwards one of the guns was taken up by a boy of eleven years of age, who levelled it at the servant girl, aged fifteen, and shot her through the head. She died in great agonies.