ALMOST A TRAGEDY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1396, 23 March 1912, Page 4

ALMOST A TRAGEDY.

PLAYING WITH A REVOLVEH. TIMIE STORY DP A SHOOTING ACCIDENT. IBs ToICEraDh-Frcsa Association.! Pnlmerston North, Marcli 22. Various sensational and contradictory rumours are current about an accident to Clarence fleiilc-v, but all are wide of the mark. The slalement made by the man himself is to the ellecl thai he was at an hotel yesterday morning, and had some drink, lie went out to the back of the premises, and was toying with a. small revolver when one of the charges exploded and I In- bullet lodged in his forehead. Although it did not: penetrate the brain, the shock caiL-ml him to drop the weipon, and he walked inside again. Someone, noticing a little blood on Henley's forehead, asked what was the matter, and lie replied: "I have been in a scrap." He left the hotel shortly after. A little later in Ok- day his employer, having no one In take Henley's usual rcumf on the butcher's cart, went out to look for him. .'lid having found him, noticed the blosxl on his forehead, and

asked what was the mutter, vecuiviiiff a rather indefinite reply. About naon Henley decided to go lo a doctor, mid was sent to (lie hospital, where Ik> was examined and the bullet extracted lust evening. Had the revolver been a larger one, probably instant- death would have resulted. * As it was, however, tho bullet merelv embedded itself in the forehead, causing a slight fracture, but did not penetrate the brain. The man is making satisfactory progress.