Accidental Shooting. — A lad named Samuel Potter, agrd iiiieen years, was accidentally wounded by the di>cii:irgu of a gun on .Saturday ln.jl. It appears tluil Ins was in the mtu'j on tiie Waterloo instate, a short distance from where a pigeon malfh was b'-iug shot, aud not fir from him was a m>m named (jieorge Austin, witli a gun, looking i"'ir stray pigeons. Austin was looking in the diiTcLioii ot roller, and ha happening to put li is head up Austin, being under the impression that the moving olij.rl wa-a pigi'on, took aim and fired. 'J 1)2 shot t.ic'ri i li'eel in I 'otter's back, but tho injurU? iuSiolcd core not of a serious nature. —■Sydaxy Mail.
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 37, 17 March 1863, Page 2
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