MAORI SHOT.
: » CONFLICTING VERSIONS OF THE HAPPENING. (press association telegram.) W AIM ATE, March 8. A young, Maori, named Mason Boko, was admitted to the Waimate Hospital to-day with a bullet in his head. Later in the day. Dr. Pitts operated, The bullet -was traced from a check wound at tho edge of the mouth {through to the back of the neck, fcut lias not yet been extracted. The paiont's condition is serious. The Maori's version is that he imd Boyes were drinking and playing cards. At cloven o'clock he said he was going home. Boyes turned nasty, and let off the revolver at him. Boyes's own story is that he was showing the Maori what ho would do to the police next time he met them, when the revolver accidentally discharged,
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16156, 9 March 1918, Page 9
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132MAORI SHOT. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16156, 9 March 1918, Page 9
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