Accidents and Fatalities.
{Per Press Association.) Ditnedin, This day. A man named John Nicol, a rabbiter on Lochindrob station, was shot through the cheek in a mysterious manner on Tuesday. He and a man named Reid were living in a hut. Reid said he was going to Balclutba that day, and while Nicol was having his tea alone the shot went off, the bullet passing through one of his cheeks, striking and fracturing the jaw and WRrating the tongue.* Knowing his JWrA- kept a revolver Nicol concluded it had by some means gone off, and he set out for the homestead without making any examination. Dr Fleming reached the station from Balclutba about 2 a.m. on Wednesday. He failed to find the bullet and it is surmised Nicol, who was bleeding freely, spat it out. Constable Griffith, on ma-king inquiry, found that Reid did not go to Balclutha on Tuesday, and as Nicol had some £l7 in the hut, he gone out to investigate, but has not yet returned. The hut is in a very lonely part of the country.
By a shooting accident at Caversham Mr David Scoular has lost his foot, which bad to be amputated.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 322, 14 May 1897, Page 3
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