SHOOTING ACCIDENT
YOUTH SKItJOfSLY IXJVHKD AT AIOAXA. A serious shooting accident befi! a youth named Ernest Richard Untidy, son of Air Ernest Buddy, carpenter, and residing with his parents at Mourn:, on Saturday afternoon. Atabout 2.30 o'clock, taking a pea rill- , [Buddy, who is 18 years of age. loft the house to shoot a wild cat at the bottom of a paddock. In order to roach this point, he hud to step over u pig-stye, which is built- across a barbed wire feme, at a distance- of about fifty yards from the house, it is believed that tile accident nee irred whilst Buddy was negotiating the fence, the triggi r having apparent i.\ been caught by one of the wires, discharging the rifle. The h diet entered his breast on the left side and lie uas subsequently found in a state of c !- lapse. So far as is known, nobody saw the actual accident. .Mr Noel Peat. J.P. of Moaiia. ami ehe father of ike victim lost- no time in havingdiim conveyed to tile Civy River Hospital, where he was admitted in an unconscious condition, the case Icing a sew ous one. Gpon enquiry later it was ascertained that tin- sillier,-r had iv gained consciousness and that his condition was more hopeful.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19290107.2.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1929, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
212SHOOTING ACCIDENT Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1929, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in