BULLET IN HEAD.
DISCOVERY AFTER 10 YEARS.
EXPERIENCE OF A YOUTH.
[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN COB lIESI'OK DENT.] CHIIISTOHUEOH, Friday.
A shot In the heail wan received by a youth, Ray Choate, of Si:.. Alb ana, 10 years ago. He was in company with another boy, who had a :i fevolvisr, and was wounded through the cureless) handling of the weapon. A doctor ]t*ho examined him at the time said he was very lucky, as the buiilet hid just graced the skull.
However, in recent years the youth had been troubled wrlh his nerves. Recently he visited th<i hospital,, and as the result of an X-ruy examination an operation was perform ed. The revolver bullet was removed from under his. scalp, where it had lain unknown* to him for the intervening 10 y<iars.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 12
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