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Source: Bell's Weekly Messenger, No.1828, Sunday, April 10, 1831

A few evenings since, at Ballintemple, in the county of Carlow, as the three sons of Sir T. Butler, Bart. were walking with the gamekeeper, by some incautious use of the gamekeeper's gun, it unfortunately exploded, and the contents lodged in the stomach of the youngest son, a boy, of about ten years old, the effects of which terminated his existence in less than half an hour, without the slightest manifestation of suffering, and without uttering a single groan!—Dublin Paper.