LOCKING GUN ACCIDENT.
[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Thames, Saturday. serious gun accident occurred to-day to a Joung man named Harry Glasson, an employe on Mr. R. N. Smith's farm, Kauvalley. 11 appears that G lasson wok a double-barrelled gun from Smith's OUBO this morning, and went a short diefrom tho farm to shoot pheasants. n «of the barrels was loaded, but"Glasson being aware of this fact, loaded it a ltH, nd time; consequently on discharging dreJl gun burst, shattering his left band awfully. Assistance was soon at hand, lau| th °i sufferer wna conveyed to the HosComill t'f re ' fc Wufi found Uiat the palm was bin J ' y lacerated, the thumb being Wri«h D over on .to the back of t ' lo hand, tho ( h a n k°P e , ' ai(l -bore, and tho little finger It was ?10 tilo thircl j°' nt - At first 6tn n , t it would be necessary to WtK the hand, but Dr. Williams, by 3>eits * e ' managed to save three of the loupti fiT °' y removed thumb and
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9047, 7 May 1888, Page 5
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