CURIOUS ACCIDENT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1675, 29 September 1887, Page 2

CURIOUS ACCIDENT

A serious acoident, from which fatal results were anticipated, occurred at Footsoray, Victoria, recently, through the careless use of fire -arras. A young man named CoDplestone, 18 years cf age, took up a rilli belonging to his halfbrother, and remarking that he had naver fired a shot from a gun, pat up a tin on the fence Id tho yard and fired three times, missing on each occasion. The occupants of Mr Fmser's hoaae, four doors off, seeing their pigeons fluttering about, went into the yard, when there wti another report, and Mm F.-aser oil led oat •o hrr daughter,*' Oh, my God, Vw shot m the breast." The daoghter ran to her, ani led her into the house, while anocber relative hastened off for Dr iuieraon. Mrs Fraser went into the Btreet to try and fiad out who Jirad the shot, but becime so weak that she had to retu-n. At the time when she was woandod she bad apparently had her right hand about the upper park of her body ; for the bu let had passed through the flath of the 1 mer f)»rt of the breast. The doctor traoad it nto and through the long, but he could follow It no further, and he expected th»t his patient would not recover. Young Oopplestone was greatly moved at the result of hia carelessness, aud took all the blame to himself