SHOT NINE TIMES AND STILL LIVING.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 August 1919, Page 6

SHOT NINE TIMES AND STILL LIVING.

S’crgeallt in-'zl'gan, Dublin Fusili-erq, Australian born Irishman at present in the Kin_c__,rston and District Red Cross Hospital, tempts on his life by German ofiigers. He took f)sl‘~.‘t in the dperation which 1-esultecl in the capture of Jel'usa.leni, and was taken rrisoner. Enraged at the sight cf :1 Gprman oTcer shooting; down prisrme-rs. Merrigan snatched a r.°vo]'.-‘or from a guard and shot the officer dead. «

He was seized and put against a Wall, says the London Evening News, and two German officcrs emptied . the contents of their automatic pistols into his body_ Nine bullets tooks effeet, and Sergeant Mcrrigan wsa left for dead. V

He was picked up by our own forces, and after 3. long spell in hospital was invalidefl. to England by way of Bulgaria, Poland, Germany, and Holland.