BURST SHELL IN A ROOM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13300, 9 February 1914, Page 10

BURST SHELL IN A ROOM.

handy -.oubatfs" injury while making a^or-stop.. ' ; ; LUNDTJN, Dec. 23,---v,While making a "door -d°g (a weight to keep doors open),, the] Rev. H. ,. J. Hodgson, curate . of t ,,. CJfiditon, near Exeter,, met with. 1 a. 'curjous accident yesterday. The base was to be -^a shell which he had had since, -the Boetswar, and he was trying -to make a. handle out of an old French sword-bayonet. Ho had consulted a friend to/ make cloubly sure that the shell was- not. a live -one. The sword he made red-hot m the drawing-room lire, and he 'was fixing it into' tho -shell When the shell exploded. ; : ' : . • • ; The noise was heard .. afar*:-.-!; Mrs, Hodgson, who was decorating the church for Christmas, heard it, but she did not,- associate it with,, her. h orne >- an d was .summoned .later by,,, a. „-nessenger,., In the meantime a servant and some neighbors hastened to the assistance of Mr Hodgson, who, m spite of his pain, was able to instruct^ them how to use •a, poker as- a splint for. his shattered He :-\vas taken m &, motor car to Exeter Hospital, yr here.! it; was found that his right leg w-as^ fractured below the kinee (it is feared that amputation i will be^necessary), his right* wrist injured, . and his face* burned. The large Day window of: ..the^>d^win^-room was blown out, a hole was made m the floor, and furniture was damaged.