ODD ACCIDENT
f DOG KNOCKS GUN FROM MAN’S HAND. LOSS OF FOUR FINGERS RESULTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. Mr E. A. Francis, a farmer of Ward, was leaving his homestead on Saturday to go shooting when a dog knocked his shotgun out of his grasp. The weapon exploded, the charge entering Mr Francis’s hand, from which four fingers were subsequently amputated in the Blenheim hospital.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1938, Page 8
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67ODD ACCIDENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1938, Page 8
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