SHOT IN THE BACK.
A 'youth named Harry Betteridge, and two other young men, were sailing on the Waikato River in a small boat on Wednesday evening ■ (writes our Huntly correspondent), trying their marksmanship on any small birds that came near, when the craft struck an obstacle, and caused the revolver one of the occupants was holding to go' off, 'the bullet penetrating the fleshy- part of Betteridge's back, near the waist;. and not far from ■ the spinal cord. , ■■• Fortunately, the firearm was a small one, otherwise the accident would have been fatal, as only the distance between the thwarts separated the victim from the lad who held the gun,.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14223, 20 November 1909, Page 7
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