SHOOTING MYSTERY
FARM WORKER WOUNDED IN KNEE |( iP.A.) BLENHEIM, Apl. 20. ■ Mystery surrounds the wounding in the knee of a farm employee, Ivor John Boon, aged 27. The incident occurred in the Rai Valley, 40 miles from Blenheim, on Friday night, and Mr Boon was struck in the back of the left leg by a bullet which penetrated the knee.
Mr Boon had paid a short call to friends, Mr and Mrs Peter Anderson, and their family, and was walking towards a motor car when 112 was wounded. It was a stormy njght, and neither the victim nor the Andersons heard the shot. Mr Boon fell helpless to the ground, and it was some time before his cries for help were heard inside the house, which is in an isolated locality. The police are attempting to establish if the attack was malicious or whether the wounding was accidental as the result of nocturnal deer stalking in the surrounding hills. Mr Boon is progressing satisfactorily at the public hospital.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24896, 21 April 1942, Page 4
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