A Shooting Affair.
Auckland, Nov, 28,
A mysterious shooting affair took place in Grey-street shortly after 9 o’clock oh Sunday evening, Joseph Dodson, aged 17, went into the back yard of his father’s shop to get some oats for a horse. In his left hand he carried a candle. He approached a gate leading into a right-of-way. There he noticed a man standing against a fence, and in order to get a better look at him, he raised the candle with hileft hand and shaded his eyes with his right handi Then the lad heard a shot and felt a sting irfthe right wrist, the one that was shading his tace. Hearing the report Hie father of the lad ran out from the kitchen where he had been sitting; the intruder, however, had made off as soon as he had fired. On examining the boy the father found that the bullet had struck his son’s wrist and travelling through his hand lodged near the knuckle of his second finger.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3604, 30 November 1905, Page 2
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169A Shooting Affair. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3604, 30 November 1905, Page 2
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