ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
SHOT BY A PEA RIFLE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Waihi, Saturday. Robert Watson, aged 14, was accidentally shot in the throat this morning by a little l-oy aged six years, named Mason Little. Little, unaware that the pea rifle was loaded, pulled the trigger, and the bullet entered the centre of Watson's throat, but was later successfully extracted. The patient is very little the worse for the misadventure.
KILLED WHILE BIRD-NESTING.
Auckland, Last Night. A little bov named Thomas Gordon Hurley, aged nine, was killed while birdDusting at Mt. Roskill 011 Saturday. Deceased, while climbing after a nest, fell fifty feet on to a stone wall, sustaining severe fractures of the skull and laceration of the brain. He died in the hospital. At the inquest a verdict of death by misadventure was returned.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 148, 11 November 1912, Page 5
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135ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 148, 11 November 1912, Page 5
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