LOSS OF FOREARM.
GUN ACCIDENTALLY DISCHARGED. MISHAP WHILE RABBIT SHOOTTS& ! While rabbit shooting fit yesterdays afternoon Sidney Dwyer. s.gsd 26. a porter at the Howick Hotel, **• severely wounded in the right arm as the result of an accidental explosion of tie second barrel of his gun. • Dwyer fired at a rabbit, and the ■wounded animal disappeared into va gorse. In pursuing the rabbit DwreT ! carried the gun by the barrel, and visa ! the cartridge had accidentally discharged the" shot penetrated his right ' arm. tearing it severely. Amputation d the forearm was found to be necessary ■when the unfortunate young man w*S admitted to the Auckland Hospital late last evening. 1: •whs reported to-aay that his condition was satisfactarr. ■
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 44, 22 February 1926, Page 6
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118LOSS OF FOREARM. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 44, 22 February 1926, Page 6
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