Accidenta! Shooting.

Manawatu Herald, 27 July 1893, Page 2

Accidenta! Shooting.

A most remarkable jnstan^df the danger arising /from, f the u careless manipulation of firearms. occurred, in Wellington on Monday uigli^.i^s Donaldson, wife of-a tajlor,, .residing at 35, Arthur-street,,, w,as rs^ttin.jJn one of the rooms of . the,.i\ouse' with two of her sisters (ther Misses Bowater) and a Miss McElwain, who was spending the evening. with her during her husband's absence. Mrs Donaldson's baby, a child only ft^few months old, was being l nu^3f(J\byj its mother, and for a plaything had been given a small six-chamberedj^/Ball-dog' revolver. Mca Dqnajds.on took the dangerous toy., from tjfcip in&st, and, thinking it not to be loaded, snapped it several times in the direction of the window. l$o { djqehjarge followed, whereupon Miss McElwain, saying ■ • Give it me, I'll have i^ghot,' took the weapon . from? and pointed it in the directionof the cloor. Unfortunately the chambett»n which the hammer fell happefii^d to be loaded, and Miss Miniu^J&jQwater, who was coming aloqg^t|t;irtßage at the time, received- tttabtijjet;in her jaw. Mounted -^^|^b|e|[4^ealy and Wilson, yh& :t^|^m^^«*st, heard the disohargeV and the house,; where theTrendered^such assistance as was in thtir^jpoWeß. Dr Mackin was, at once sera and found that the bullet had through the cheek/itrack the jawbone, and passed out bejom tjjie chin. The bullet was subsequently on the floor in the pasijagi?, The injured woma.n Irasby^pivMaclcin's orders taken' to the hospital; where her wound was attended to, and latest advices are that she is doing (airly well. TJ)e rpvoket/ wbiofaris of common - make,- beFongeff W4l r Donaldson. When the police were making enquiries { into the affair another revolver, was found^-O'W * table in 'the satpef &op^i^tjqjj^gps broken, and therefore harmless. — Post. . ■ . ; :,.-,■■ ... ..,..,.;■>/■