EXTRAORDINARY SHOOTING CASE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2280, 14 November 1889, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY SHOOTING CASE.

A CYCLIST MISTAKEN FOR A BIRD.. J A reporter on Monday morning Interviewed George Sedgwlch. a London oyolt't, who lies at Chester seriously lnjared by gunshot wouudß reoeived under extraordinary clroumßtanoes, Tha Injured man, wbo Is 34 yesrs of age, and is m busineea bb a draper la London, residing at Betbnal Green Road, says he left home en Thursday morning, on a cycling tour to the North. He had proceeded as far as a village near Market Drayton, Staffordshire. At fonr on Friday afternoon, passing a party of sportsmen man adjoining field he foil from hla maohine, riddled with sbotff. Stunned and bleeding, he climbed up an embankment, and saw the party lowering their guns iv his direction. He exclaimed, -"For God's sakel If yon are Englishmen, don't shoot me again." and then fell down the bank. They were 30 ■ irds off, and m hfs opinion tbey had mistaken his white silk cap, just visible ever the hedge for a bird. Hi complains bitterly of tbe lack of attention shown hini. He did not receive surgical aid till his arrival m Chester by train about nine o'olopk. He was conveyed to his aunt's residence m York street, where Dr King fonnd that nine shots had entered his biok, one In bis arm, and four or five on the bead. One shot penetrated his jaw and knocked oat • tooth. He In fltlil Moitrfcte, but recovering ilowly ♦

(Received November 14, 0.5 p.tn.)