ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
DEATH FROM BULLET WOUND CARRIER SUCCUMBS IN HOSPITAL. (Peb United Pbehs Association.)WAIPUKURAU, May 8. An inquest was opened this morning and adjourned, after identification, on Arthur Ernest Paget, a middle-aged married carrier of Takapau, who was found yesterday morning in a shed at the back of his residence with a bullet wound in the head from a .22 rifle. He was conveyed to Waipukurau Hospital in an unconscious condition, and died last night. SMALL BOY INJURED A three-year-old boy named John Gallagher, who lives with his parents at Waitati, was admitted to the Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a fractured right leg. He received the injury through falling from a go-cart.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22257, 9 May 1934, Page 8
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