SENSATIONAL INCIDENT.
GUN GOES OFF IN CROWD,
An out-of-the-ordinary incident occurred at tho Porirua railway, station on Sunday wt" 'noon, a crowd of people awaiting tho airiyal » j * or n oton wero standing in tho station building sheltering from the rain. Suddenly, right iu their midst, a gun went off. . Immediately there was a screaming, scattering, and general commotion: bus ivhen everything quietened down it was* found that no one had been hit or hurt. Shortly afterwards a young man was observed walking . along the platform carrying a gun from which smoko was Still issuing, It appears that this man and one. or two others had been over the hills shoot-
ins, and when rain fell had returned to ; the railway station. They had brought the gun' back without having extracted tho cartridge,- and on attempting to do this in the waiting-shod had pulled the trigger. . Fortunately, the,gun was pointed at the .floor when'the discharge occurred. _ Tho floor, of course, was freely : Ventilated.' It is lucky-that the man was' ■ Hot outside the building at the timo, as the shot would have rebounded from the i asphalt, and probably struck some of tho * crowd.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1659, 28 January 1913, Page 7
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193SENSATIONAL INCIDENT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1659, 28 January 1913, Page 7
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