GIRL SHOT IN MOUTH
Brother Playing With Pistol
iNeto Zeaiana Press Assoctatton) AUCKLAND, January 13. A girl, aged three, was shot in the mouth last night when her brother, aged six, was playing with a bank pistol in the Takapuna branch building of the Bank of New Zealand. The girl, Helen Patricia Bayly, daughter of Mr and Mrs lan Bayly, of Takapuna, was taken to the Auckland Public Hospital, where her condition today was satisfactory. The Bayly family live in a flat above the bank and the children were playing in a back room when Helen’s brother, Keith Alexander, climbed up to a cupboard and picked up a loaded .38 pistol.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28793, 14 January 1959, Page 13
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