SHOT IN BACK
BOY IN YACHT ON AUCKLAND ENTRY INTO PROHIBITED AREA. (By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, This Day. While sailing a fourteen foot yacht near Defence Point in the Waitemata Harbour yesterday afternoon James Louis Riley, aged 16, son of Mr E. Riley, of Herne Bay, was shot in the back by a ricocheting bullet fired by a sentry. He was taken to a hospital and the bullet removed from his shoulder-blade. He is progressing favourably. Riley and two other youths had sailed into the bay near the prohibited area and were proceeding out when a shot, which they believed was a war warning was fired. They were pulling away from the point when Riley was shot.
“Beyond the fact that the boys were cruising in a prohibited area no statement can be made until an investigation is completed,” said an army official stationed at Defence Point, near where the incident occurred.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1941, Page 6
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152SHOT IN BACK Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1941, Page 6
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