SHOOTING ACCIDENT.
Fatal Termination.
A Queer Shooting? Gallery.
[By Telegraph.] Oamaru, November 28.
The boy Genge, who was shot ia the stomach by a bullet from a shoot* ing gallery at the Agricuhnral Show on Friday last, has been operated upon. The doctors failed to extricate the bullet, and tbe lad lies in a critical condition. A number of persons were struck by bullets. One boy had a piece of lead imbedded orer his eye; another was struck on the back of his neck, and a third on the forehead. A ballet also tore the ground up close to a lady. Nobody wis injured seriously, except the lad Genge, The gallery appears to havn been constructed of wood, and the bullets passed through wholesale.
Later. The boy Genge, who was injured by *" a bullet which passed through the target of a shooting gallery at the Show, died in the hospital to-night.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3971, 24 November 1891, Page 2
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151SHOOTING ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3971, 24 November 1891, Page 2
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