PEA-RIFLE MISHAP.
YOUTH SHOT IN THE CHEST.
OUT AFTER WILD CAT,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
GREYMOUTH, this day.
A shooting accident occurred yesterday at Moana, 23 miles south-east from Greymouth, when Ernest Richard Boddy, aged 18, was injured by a pea-rifle bullet entering his chest.
The youth went out to shoot a wild cat. Having to step over a pigsty by a wire fence, it is surmised one of the wires caught the trigger of the rifle. He was brought in an unconscious state to the Greymouth Hospital, where his condition to-day was reported as rather less serious than at first believed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 5, 7 January 1929, Page 17
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