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Curious Accident In North
( Bv J'elearaDh-
WHANGAPE!, Last Night. A serious shooting accident occurrcd On Sunday. Poy Percival Carsou, single, u liuesmau cmploycd by the P. and T. Dcpartnient afc Jkaitaia was takeu to hospital with a bullet in the ( head. Mr. Carson was riding in a motorear driven by Mr. Ceeil Maxwell, telegrajjhist, of Kaitaia, ile alighted to tako from the car a rii'le which was , dismautled, the stock being wrapped in an overeoat. The barrel slipped on lo the road, Apparently there was a cartridge in the breach, which the contact with the road caused to explode. • Tho bullet passed th rough Mr. CarsonV arm, entered hn face ,just undcr thc nose, and lodged in the head. Hopes are held Out for his recovery.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 204, 14 September 1937, Page 3
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