“Gunpowder Plot” Was Too Real
CHILDREN in hospital barrel OF EXPLOSIVE (from Our Own Correspondent) THAMES, To-day. children, the eldest nine years, S nlayed Guy Fawkes In reality on c day morning at Kirikiri, five miles , “ Thames, and as a result three i n the hospital. The parents o£ the children went ■ to town and the little ones obtained tin of gunpowder from a shed and *tood round It while one of them (iropped lighted matches into the powderThere was a terrific explosion , n d the six children were hurled yarde away. It is a miracle they were not killed. Three of the children escaped with minor injuries, but the other »hree, a Maori girl and boy, and two white hoys named Williams, Murray and Gregory respectively, were severely burned about the head and face, one child being practically scalped. The three were removed to the Thornes Hospital. Their condition is not considered serious.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 195, 7 November 1927, Page 1
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