YOUTH SHOT IN THIGH
DISCHARGE OF PEA-RIFLE ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED A 17-year-old - youth, Gordon Dyer, a son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Dyer, of 65 Owens Road, Epsom, was shot in the left thigh when a pea-rifle accidentally exploded at his home yesterday afternoon.
The mishap occurred when Dyer suddenly dropped the rifle, which ho was examining, the fall causing the weapon to discharge. The injured youth was taken to the Auckland Hospital, whero tho bullet was removed. lie is not in a serious condition.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21297, 26 September 1932, Page 10
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