MAN FOUND SHOT
AN UNUSUAL ACCIDENT
(By ,Telegraph—Press Association.)
INVERCARGILL, February 13.
With a bullet wound, in his head and an undischarged double-barrelled shotgun lying alongside him, Sydney Francis MacPherson,' aged 53, married, dentist, of Invercargill, was found at about 10 o'clock this i morning.
MacPherson went to Busy Point, a mile beyond the Otatara rifle range, yesterday afternoon, to shoet rabbits. When found this morning he was lying unconscious with his gun alongside.. There was an undischarged cartridge in each chamber. He was admitted to the Southland Hospital with a compound fracture of the skull. It is believed that the bullet struck at an acute angle, as it passed completely through the skull near the crown. Medical opinion is that the wound was. caused by a .303 bullet. A, regimental machine-gun practice was' held on the range on Saturday afternoon, and it is thought that a richochet may have caused the injury. MacPherson is on the dangerously ill list.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1938, Page 11
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