HE CAME A CROPPER.
A rcma.rlca.ble accident befell a re-fui-nod trooper, H. Cropper, ou McLeimian Bros.' I'inrni at Tan-igainiitu, on, tiro Main Trunk line, on Monda.y last. He wa.s occupjed in graces seeding .'i.nd "as carrying a loaded revolver Hi his right troilsor pocket with the. object of shooliirg stray rabbits. Unfortunately, he siipjied over a bank and rolled lo'lhe Imttom. During his descent the revolver by some means went off. File bullet eutertiUg his leg. The. -soldier was treated at TiUitivaminui Hospital by Dr. Mackniighf. who removed tho bullet, wluxjh had travelled as f-a.r a.s the knee. The bullet wins found to be flattened out on one side, and evidently must have struck the bone of the leg with considerable force. .Trooper Cropper en lusted from Tauuinruiiui in January of last _ year a,nd wnw much lighliing at Gallipoli. Ho returned .recently invalided from Iho front
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2886, 4 March 1916, Page 2
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146HE CAME A CROPPER. Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2886, 4 March 1916, Page 2
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