MAN SHOT
MISTAKEN FOR TRESPASSER. TRAGIC PRACTICAL JOKE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WHANGAREI, February 27. Shot in the abdomen at point-blank range, Steven Urlich, a Dalmatian settler, of Houhora, in the far north, lies critically ill in the Mangonui District Hospital, Kaitaia. He was returning home in the darkness and was mistaken by a son aged 16£ for a trespasser. Intent on playing a practical joke on the boy, he did not reply when his son called out to him. The boy became frightened and went for a shot gun. In statements to the police, the father was emphatic that the whole incident was his own fault.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1942, Page 6
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