Serious Shooting Accident.
(Per Press Association.) Cheistchubch, February 18. A serious shooting accident happened at North Loburn yesterday afternoon to a young woman, aged about 28, daughter of John Ponsonby, farmer. Her younger sister, a girl about 17 years old, had found an old horse pistol in her brother's box, and, not knowing that it was loaded, placed a lighted match on tho nipple. The weapon exploded, and the bullet, passing through the open door in the kitchen, struck her sister on the left arm near the shoulder, shattering the bone. It was found necessary to amputate the arm. The patient is in a critical state.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 206, 1 March 1895, Page 2
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