A SHOOTING FICTION.
, .(Per Press Association.) Auckland,.last night. The police were informed on Sunday that a very strange shooting affair had occurred in Grey street. The victim, a youth named Joseph Dodson, had to be taken to a private hospital suffering from a bullet wound in the right band. He explained that a strange man'had Bhot at him and run away. A deteotive was directed to investigate the mystery, and to-day it was completely cleared up, Dodson making a statement that the mysterious man who ran away was an invention of his own. He had been playing with a toy revolver on Sunday' evening, and while putting it in his pooket he injured himself by accidentally letting it off. As he wa3 afraid that hiß parents would be angry with him for boying the revolver he made up the story to deceive hem, r t I'-, v . >•. i *..,4-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1615, 30 November 1905, Page 2
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149A SHOOTING FICTION. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1615, 30 November 1905, Page 2
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