CORSICAN MYSTERY.
BRITISH VICE-CONSUL SHOT BY CONCEALED ENEMY. VpIrIS, August 17. •Mr George Ajfderson, the British ViceConsul at Bastia, Corsica, has been the victim of a mysterious shooting outrage on an estate near that town.'. He had gone .; out shooting witb his brother, and about 4 p.m., as they were sitting on, the ground talking, a .bullet grazed the leg of one of them. Thinking that it liad been fired by an inexperienced game shoo&ir;.;the brothers were not, alarmed by Ine accident, but presently a second report was heard, and the " feR back with a bullet m his forehead.: While his brother was atten<Jing to him two more shots were fired, but /both missed. *W , Mr .George Anderson was taken to the hospital at Bastia,. ,: where the' bullet was extracted from *his v forehead. Notwithstanding the loss'&f blood caused by th ( e rupture; of a blood- vessel, it is expected he will recover. V . ■'•'.''*' So far there is *no clue to the perpetrator of the outrage or the motive of the crime. - . •■ .. •' ' A
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12883, 2 October 1912, Page 9
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173CORSICAN MYSTERY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12883, 2 October 1912, Page 9
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