Youth Accidentally Shot In Mouth
Joseph Peter Adams, aged 16, of 15 Manuere street, Hornby, was accidentally shot in the mouth with a .22 rifle in a paddock in Gilberthorpe road about 3 p.m. yesterday. He was taken to the Christchurch Hospital and then transferred to the Burwood Hospital, where his condition was reported last evening as satisfactory.
Four boys were rabbit shooting in a paddock in Gilberthorpes road when John Moore Kelly, aged 16, of 169 Gilberthorpe road, shot at a magpie on a fence. At that moment Adams came out of a group of trees and he appeared to trip and fall to the ground, when he got up blood was coming from his mouth. The shot entered his mouth, breaking two teeth, and lodged in his neck.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29235, 20 June 1960, Page 10
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