A baboon shot and seriously wounded a boy at Haenertsburg, Transvaal. The boy, 12-year-old Joseph Lombard, was about to go shooting with his air rifle, which he had loaded. The baboon was tied to a pole near his house and his mother asked the boy to release the animal before he went on his expedition. When he apnroached the baboon it grabbed his rifle from his hands, found the trigger and pulled it. The rifle went off, wounding the boy in the eye. An operation has been performed for the removal of the pellet, which was embedded in the boy's head. '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23083, 8 January 1937, Page 14
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