A NARROW ESCAPE.
(by telegraph.—press association). Wellington, Last Night. A cabman named James Flaherty quaralled with his wife early this morning, and fired at her twice with a rifle. He missed her, but one of the bullets struck a house a quarter of a mile off, aDd lodged in a bed where a young woman was asleep. After crashing through the wall and shattering the foot board of the bed, the flattened bullet was found in the bed clothes, the inmato of the bed having a narrow escape. I'laherty, who is a Corporal in the Wellington Guards, says ha only intended to frighten his wife, and tluught he was using blank cartridges.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3069, 17 March 1892, Page 2
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112A NARROW ESCAPE. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3069, 17 March 1892, Page 2
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