SHOT IN THIGH.
Peculiar Accident Near Wanganui. .A young man, Mr Peter Tyler, son of Mr G. H. Tyler, Westmere, was admitted to the Wanganui Hospital on Saturday, suffering from a gunshot wound in the left thigh, the result of an accident (reports the “Chronicle”). The injured man was out shooting in the afternoon, in the vicinity of the railway line above the Aramoho hill. He dropped a lighted match into some dry fern, which immediately burst into flame. He used the butt of his single-barrelled gun to beat out the fire, and the hammer is believed to have caught by a strong strand of fern and pulled back far enough to cause the gun to go off. Mr Tyler received medical attention and was conveyed to the Aramoho railway station on a jigger, where he was met by the free ambulance and taken to hospital It is thought that the discharge did not break the bone, but that will not be known for certain until an X-ray examination is performed. The patient is progressing satisfactorily.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 829, 1 August 1933, Page 7
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