SHOTGUN DISCHARGED BY LIGHTNING.
MAORI WOAIAX SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. New Plymouth, Last Night. Having been critically injured by a discharge frohn a shotgun under extraordinary conditions, a native woman, Mrs. Han, is lying at her home at Okato to-night, too seriously hurt to be moved to hospital. The gun is said to have been discharged by lightning. A double-barrelled weapon was lying on its side on the table, loaded with the trigger cocked. There came a blinding Hash of lightning, accompanied instantaneously by the crash of thunder. The gun exploded and AL's. Hau, who was working at the stove, IS feet away received the full charge in the chest, neck and arm. To-night the victim is bleeding from the lungs and is no( expected 1 1 live.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3941, 11 May 1929, Page 3
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126SHOTGUN DISCHARGED BY LIGHTNING. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3941, 11 May 1929, Page 3
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