WOMEN SHOT
LIGHTNING DISCHARGES GUN. (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, May 10. . Critically injured .by a discharge from a shotgun, under extraordinary conditions, a native woman, Mrs Haw, is lying at her home at Okato late to-night, too seriously hurt to be moved to the hospital. The gun is said, to have been discharged by . lightning. It was a double-barrelled weapon, lying on its side on a table, loaded, with the trigger cocked. There came a blinding flash of lightning, accompanied instantaneously by a crash of thunder. The gun exploded and Mrs Haw, who was working at a stove eighteen feet away, received the full charge in the chest, neck and arms.
The victim is bleeding from the lungs, and is not expected to live.
AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY.
. (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.)
SYDNEY,.May 10.
Mrs May Antin, aged forty-four, was found shot dead at her home at Bankstown. The police to-day arrested her husband, Martin Antin, a railway worker,' and charged him with murder. The parties have been separated since Christmas.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1929, Page 7
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