PEA-RIFLE ACCIDENT
MOTHER WOUNDED BY SON.
Mrs. H. Fitz, a resident of Hartley Vale, near Lithgow, New South Wales, was admitted to hospital recently in a serious condition as the result of a shooting accident. She was standing on the verandah of her home with her little son, when the latter picked up a pea rifle, which was leaning against the Avail, and, under the impression that it Avas unloaded, Avas pointing it at various objects. Suddenly the Aveapon exploded, the bullet penetrating his mother’s back.
Mrs. Fitz Avas hurried to LithgOAV by car, and admitted to hospital suffering from loss of blood.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19291026.2.9
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 26 October 1929, Page 2
Word Count
103PEA-RIFLE ACCIDENT Greymouth Evening Star, 26 October 1929, Page 2
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in