Gun Accidents
, (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) * . . Dunedin, April 3, Messrs Fish, of the Bank of New South Wales, Goldsworthy of Ban £ of New- Zealand, Horswell,. owner of one j of the. leading businesses in Naseby.'and I J. MoCxregnr, went out shooting yesteri day. on the property of Mr Geddes, midway between Naseby aad Kyeburn. Late . in : the afternoon, when all were together in a whare, seeing some ducks come along they prepared to fire. Three. fired at once. Horswell, thinking all had fired ro3e, and received the contents of the re* maining gun in the back, of the head. Half, his head was . blown away. He Hred two hours. - , <■ • Wkstpobt, April 3. • While a party of young men were. out shooting on the terraces yesterday a lad named Thomas Wilson received a charge of shot in his hand from a gun fired) bj his brother. The sufferer was brought to town, and his injuries attended to by Dr Wright, who despair*, however, of saving the hand.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 121, 4 April 1891, Page 2
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165Gun Accidents Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 121, 4 April 1891, Page 2
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