SHOCKING GUN ACCIDENT.
[BY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] New Plymouth, Sunday. Ax accident happened on Saturday to a boy 13 years of age, at Omata, named Alberb Bayley, son of the county chairman. He was out shooting with a gun, and while trailing it along the ground the trigger, which was down on the cap, caught in a piece of wood, which raised the hammer slightly, discharging the gun. He received a terrible wound in the lett arm, which will have to be amputated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9083, 18 June 1888, Page 5
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