BOY FATALLY SHOT.
PEA RIFLE ACCIDENT. (Special to the “Star.”) DUNEDIN, February 26. A distressing fatality occurred at Deborah Bay this afternoon, when a boy named Joseph Hugh Ledgewood, aged fourteen years, was fatally shot with a pea-rifle. The unfortunate lad and his brother, aged eighteen, were playing with the rifle, which they did not know was loaded, when it accidentally exploded, the bullet entering the younger boy’s stomach. The injured lad was conveyed by launch to Dunedin and an operation was performed in the hospital, but it was found that the bullet had entered a vital spot, and the lad succumbed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17474, 27 February 1925, Page 12
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