Echoes from Moray's past: Farm servant shot on Speyside farm
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Taken from the files of the Northern Scot on July 27, 1922
A distressing shooting fatality took place in Knockando on Tuesday evening.
James Craib, farm servant, Lower Knockando, Knockando, was accidentally shot and died later.
A neighbouring farm servant names Stephen when out shooting met Craib and entered into conversation with him.
Stephen was holding his gun on his arm, and when he was proceeding to light his pipe the gun was accidentally discharged, the shot hitting Craib in the groin.
Medical aid was summoned immediately and Dr Sellar, Aberlour, had the seriously injured man removed to Dr Gray's Hospital, Elgin, where he succumbed to his injuries on Thursday.
Mr Craib, who was a native of Aberdeenshire, was unmarried and was forty-five years of age.