BULLET WOUND IN HEAD
DENTIST DANGEROUSLY INJURED POSSIBLE RICOCHET FROM MACHINE GUN [Per United Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, February 13. With a bullet in the head and an undischarged double-barrelled shot-gun lying alongside, Sydney Francis MacPherson, aged 53 years, married, a dentist,- was found about 10 o’clock this morning. MacPherson went to Bushy Point, a mile beyond the Otara rifle range, yesterday afternoon, to _ shoot rabbits. When found this morning he was lying unconscious with the 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. ' Regimental machine-gun practice was held on the range on Saturday afternoon, and it is thought possible that a richochet may have caused the wound. MacPherson is on the dangerously ill list.
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Evening Star, Issue 22882, 14 February 1938, Page 18
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162BULLET WOUND IN HEAD Evening Star, Issue 22882, 14 February 1938, Page 18
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