ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
SHOT IN EYE BY AIRGUN
(Per Press Association.) WHAKATAN’E, Ibis dnv
A painful accident occurred in Whakataue yesterday to Charlie Bryenton, a son of Air E, W. Bryenton, of Taneatua. The hoy had been spending a holiday in Whakntarie with friends, and with other ho\s was engaged in shooting at a target with an aii'gun. He accidentally came in the line of fire and received a pellet in the eve. He was treated hy Dr. Appleby, who ordered the lad's removal to Auckland for further X-ray treatment.
FELL ON PICKAXE HAMILTON, this day. (diaries White, 28. a laborer, was admitted to the. Waikato hospital suffering from injuries to his side and chest through falling on a pickaxe while working at Arapuni. STOCK AGENT SUICIDES TI.MAUr, this daf. On Saturday afternoon Sydney E. Nicholls, ‘35, a stock agent, of Timaru, borrowed a gun, explaining' that he wanted to shoot hares. Shortly afterwards his (body was found on the roadside, one hand grasping the gun, and with a large hole in his head. At the inquest the coroner returned a verdict that death had been caused by a gunshot wound self inflicted whilst deceased was in a state of depressed mind.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16242, 17 January 1927, Page 6
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