WOMAN SHOT
CUN DISCI! ARC El) BY MCHTNI.NO By Telegraph- Per Association NEW PLYMOUTH, May 10. Critically injured by a discharge I'roin a shotgun, under extraordinary' conditions, a. native woman. Mrs Haw. is lying at her home at Okatn late to-night too seriously hurt to he ipovpd' to the hospital. ’I he gun is saick to:'have -been discharged by lightning. It' was a dou'hUvharrellod weapon,; lying on its side am' a table, 'loaded, with the trigger cocked. There cume’a blinding flash of lightning, accompanied instantaneously by a crash of thunder. The gun exploded and j Mrs Haw, who was working at a stove eighteen fleet away, -received the full charge in the chest, neck ;and; arms.
1 The. victim is bleeding from the lungs and is not. expected to live.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1929, Page 6
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