ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
CHILD WOUNDED IN CHEST P.A. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 14. A four-year-old boy, Bruce Albert Robertson, received a serious bullet wound in the chest when a rifle was accidentally discharged by his brother at their home at Midhurst last night. The boy’s elder brother was cleaning the rifle outside the house after returning from" a shooting expedition. The bullet smashed a window and struck the child inside the house. The injured boy, who is a son of Mr. G. A. Robertson, was admitted to the Stratford Hospital, where his condition was later reported to be fair.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26772, 15 May 1948, Page 6
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