SHOOTING TRAGEDY
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Youth Dies After Amputatioii of Arm D0G DISCHARGES GUN
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.WELLINGTON, Lost Nfgfcf, ° A tragedy attended the opening of the duck-shooting season ia Wadrarapol on Saturday, a youth named- John, Reginald Cole, aged 17, dying ah the Greytown Hospital as the result. pf a gunshot wound'. He was shooting in a reserve a few, miles out of Featherston with a partyj of other sportsmen pn Saturday morning. It appears his gun was discharged when his dog jumped up at him, the' bullet injuring his arm and enteriog the| armpit, He was conveyed to the Greytown! Hospital where the arm was amputated,j but he died fhere at 3.30 o'clock the> same aftemoon. He was a son oi Mr.; and Mrs. G. T. Cole, of Western Lake,. Featherston. An inquest is to be held. , A Masterton message states that Colej had the gun resting on the side of hia leg when the dog jumped at the duckj he was holding in his hand and knocked! the gun which discharged.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 90, 3 May 1937, Page 7
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