ACCIDENT AT ANDERSON'S BAY.
The shooting case at the Ocean Beach on tbe 9th. is, according to all appearances, one of great neglect, and demanded an immediate enquiry at the hauds of the volunteer authorities The sufferer is a young man named William Young, and be is in the employ of Mr Steinmitz, baker. Yesterday in company with his brothers he was enjoying a stroll along the Ocean Beach, when he was struck by a bullet evidently fired by one of tbe volunteers who were practising at the Anderson's Bay Range. Doctor Sorley who was sent for extracted the bullet, which he found to have entered Young's right groin, struck the hip bone, which deflected it, causing it to make almost a circuit of the body, and finally it had lodged in the integuments of the left thigh, whence it was extracted. Seeing that Young when shot was fully 1000 yards from the firing point, and that the bullet must have travelled over the sandhills, at the back of the range, there must have been some, very extraordinary shooting going on. The young man was removed to his home on the Tower hill, and is progressing favorably. — Star, May 10tk
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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 224, 16 May 1872, Page 6
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200ACCIDENT AT ANDERSON'S BAY. Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 224, 16 May 1872, Page 6
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