DANGEROUS CURIOSITIES.
The mimher of persons killed of wounded through imprudently handling loaded shells found in and round Paris since the siege, bids fair to brine: up the casualties of the war to a high figure. Last week, says a London paper. M. Raynaud, an engineer, living at Montmartre, undertook to unload a large German Krnpp sheik which had failed to go oil' as the enemy originally intended, and had been picked up by some curiosity seeker. dust as M. Raynaud was about to set to bis dangerous task the newsman entered the shop witli the daily paper, and stopped to look on. M. Raynaud 1 1 ad no sooner taken the shell between his legs to unscrew it than it exploded. M. Raynaud was literally blown to pieces. The poor newsman was cut in two, M. Raynaud's child, who was close by, escaped without so much as a scratch. Unfortunately, the casualties did not end here. When tin? .she!] exploded a lot of children were outside in front of the shop. them wore seriously wounded by the fragments, one dying a few hours after. The shop was blown inside out, and remnants of the bodies of M. Raynaud and the newsman were found on tine opposite side of the way.
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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 185, 17 January 1877, Page 2
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211DANGEROUS CURIOSITIES. Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 185, 17 January 1877, Page 2
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