HC Deb 12 June 1894 vol 25 c922
MR.MACDONA (Southwark, Rotherhithe)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that on Saturday last, the 9th instant, a boy named Henn, whilst serving in a shop in Tyston, in Staffordshire, was killed by a spent bullet from a rifle range in the vicinity; and whether, taking this fatal accident into account as happening so soon after the gravedigger being killed in the Putney Cemetery by a bullet fired from the Wimbledon rifle range, he will forbid any further rifle shooting in such dangerous localities?

MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN

The War Office have no information as yet with regard to this occurrence. I am told that the Coroner's inquiry is to be held to-day, and I will ask my hon. Friend to be good enough to put off his question for a few days.