DOG KNOCKS SHOTGUN
FARMER WOUNDED IN HAND FOUR FINGERS AMPUTATED [by telegraph—press association] BLENHEIM, Monday When Mr. E. A. Francis, a farmer, of Ward, was leaving his homestead on Saturday to go shooting, a dog knocked his shotgun out of his grasp. Tho weapon exploded, the charge entering the hand, from which four fingers were subsequently amputated in the Blenheim Hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23069, 21 June 1938, Page 8
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