RECKLESS USE OF FIREARMS.
On Tuesday evening, May 9, a young girl named Henderson, living at Leestou, nearly lost her life through the imprudence and recklessness of a lad in pointing a loaded gun at her. The circumstances of the case are as follows The lad, who is about seventeen years of age, named Mathew Roland, took his brother’s gun in the morning to go out shooting, and coming home in the afternoon, met the young girl in a paddock belonging to his brother, at whose place he was then staying. He pointed, the gun at her when about a chain distant, and said to her, “Now, then, I’m going to shoot you,” She replied, “No, don’t do that," and be then lowered the gun, which in the motion of lowering went off. The edge of the charge of shot struck her in the right eye and otherwise badly disfigured that side of her face. Dr Chapman was at once sent for, and by the assistance of chloroform succeeded in discovering that both eyes were more or less seriously injured, the use of one being entirely gone. It is a fortunate circumstance that the whole charge did not take effect, as at such a short distance a fatal result must have occurred. —‘ Lyttelton Times.’
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Evening Star, Issue 4125, 17 May 1876, Page 3
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214RECKLESS USE OF FIREARMS. Evening Star, Issue 4125, 17 May 1876, Page 3
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