BOY AND DYNAMITE CAP
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM SERIOUS INJURY. Press Association. WAIHI, February 5. Tho oldest hoy (about ten years) of Mrs Parker, Wrigley street, had a remarkable escape from a serious accident. Ho was hammering at the leg of a rocking horse when suddenly an explosion occurred. The child was struck on tho temple, cheek and forefinger. Fortunately the wounds were not serious. After the little fellow had his injuries attended to he explained that he bad picked up something which ho mistook for a brass screw, and inserting it in an old screw hole in the side of tho rocking horse began hammering it with an iron spike. It could bo only surmised that ho had picked up a dynamite cap, and tho hitting caused it to explode. A fragment of metal was extracted from tho wound in the temple. Tho nature of tho report indicates that a dynamite cap caused the explosion.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8347, 6 February 1913, Page 7
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155BOY AND DYNAMITE CAP New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8347, 6 February 1913, Page 7
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