DOMINION NEWS
PEA RIFLE TRAGEDY. DUNEDIN. February 26 A distressing', fatality occurred, at Deborah Bay this afternoon, when a hoy named .Joseph Hugh Ledgerwood, syed fourteen years, was fatally shot with a pea rifle. The unfortunate lad and. his brother aged eighteen, were plavirig- with the rifle, which they did rot know was loaded. It accidentally exploded the bullet entering the younger boy’s stomach. The injured boy was conveyed to the Dunedin Hospital by a launch, and :4u [operation was performed in the hospital, but it was found that the bullet had entered a rftal spot and the hul succumbed. OLD MAN" BIE« FROM BURNS. AUCKLAND, February 26. \n old age pensioner .Tames AVillan. sustained very severe burns as the re su lt <,f :i li.rosi.ne lamp upsetting in bis wlmro at Dairv Flat, near Albany, last night. AYillian. who has lived alone for some time, rushed out of the wbare with bis clothing afire. Neighbours wire attracted by the old man's cries, arid the flames were soon extlaginsheil. He "'as taken to Birkenhead, xml afterwards to the Hospital, win r" he ilh’d six hours after admission
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Grey River Argus, 27 February 1925, Page 4
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187DOMINION NEWS Grey River Argus, 27 February 1925, Page 4
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