WIFE ARRESTED
HUSBAND INJURED BY GUN
(Per Press Association Copyright.)
AUCKLAND, October 15
Struck by a discharge from a shot gun as he wa s walking from the passage into the kitchen of Ji'is home shortly after mid-day yesterday, George Little, aged 41, foreman at Pokeno for the Public Works Department, received severe lacerations to the right hand. Little had returned to the house from working outside (about noon. Mrs Little was in the kitchen, and, | a few seconds later, as Little was just [ coming through the passage door into the kitchen, the report cf a shot rang out. He received the full charge 'in the hand.' The injured man ran out of the house to the nearest neighbour, who obtained medical aid. The police later visited the house, and questioned Mrs Little, who is aged 49, and | arrested and brought her to Auckland. She will be charged in the Police Court to-morrow.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1933, Page 4
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