ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
DEATH FROM SHOCK. $y Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A -well-known resident of Onehunga, Mr. R. S. Martin, died this afternoon as the result of an accident. Deceased had -been ill for a long time, and was resting in his garden when he decided to shoot some quail, whic!; were a source of annoyance. He procured a shot gun, and was proceeding down the garden when, owing to his weak state, he stumbled and fell, causing the. gun to be fired. 'The wljole charge entered his abdomen. A' medical man was sent for, and decided } that an immediate operation was neces- j sary. A surgeon was summoned from Auckland, but just as the operation ter,minatod the patient died from shock nad*
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 February 1919, Page 5
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