HASTINGS MAN SHOT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17956, 7 December 1932, Page 11

HASTINGS MAN SHOT

* v' • * ft — GUN DISCHARGES IN TALL A shooting fatality .occurred or the riverbed about two miles from Haumoana on Sunday, as'a result of which, , Harry Thomas, 20, who lived with Ins parents ip Hostings, lost his life. •Thomas had been camping on tjie riverbed with soph? mates for a or two,' apd qii Saturday hight a Rp P 11 1? jug his # at Little; s' Bqtchcry, lie aw’d a friend named \ firry went to t-io camp for the yreek-eud. Chi feppday morning, the two friends rostt ppfly #ty* day’s shooting, and at 6.30 they s }'f oft in: search of hares, both being equipped Wl^ey a ded4ef to separte, and ft little lateri Pit' hearing a shot fired abopt 100 ttlVardft distant, Terry concluded that ins Pfcepd had sighted a Imre, but took no notice aud \fpiii on his, W a >'- |iis course, however, finally led linn near tpe spot where he beard the rifle shot., apd tmp-e he discovered Thomas suffering severely from wounds in the chest. Tlippitis was then badly injured, but was quite cbnatious, and was able tp tell Ins friend that lie had slipped and htllen into the fiver bed, the rifle discharging in' the fall and -the sjiot entering his chest. The scene of the accident was some distance from any help, and the greatest difficulty was experienced i» get-ring Thomas to a spot where he could be attended to. A doctor was summoned, and the patient removed to fjie Hastings Memorial Hospital, but he passed away later.