EXTRAORDINARY CASE
GUN DISCHARGED BY LIGHTNING. WOMAN CRITICALLY INJURED. (Per United Press Association.) New Plymouth, May 10. Critically injured by the discharge from a shotgun under extraordinary conditions, a native woman, Mrs Haw, is lying at her home at Okato late to-night, too seriously hurt to be moved to the hospital. The gun is said to have been discharged by lightning. The double barrelled weapon was lying on its side on the table loaded, with the trigger cocked. There came a blinding flash of lightning accompanied instantaneously by a crash of thunder. The gun exploded and Mrs Haw, who was working at the stove 18 feet away, received the full charge in her chest, neck and arm. The victim is bleeding from the lungs and is not expected to live.
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Southland Times, Issue 20771, 11 May 1929, Page 7
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