WOUNDING OF YOUTH
POLICE VIEW. INCIDENT ACCIDENTAL. AUCKLAND, Monday. Enquiries prosecuted by the police have discounted any suggestion that the malicious discharge of a rifle may have been responsible for the wounding of Francis Sandin, aged 20 years, who received an injury to his skull when he was struck by a bullet at Papakura on Sunday afternoon. Sandin was milking cows on his father’s farm when a bullet struck him on the head, lodging near the brain It was removed, and he is making satisfactory progress. Police at Auckland are satisfied the incident was accidental. It is considered probable that the injury was caused by a ricochet bullet from a rifle which was being used by a man to shoot birds some 800 yards away.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 December 1937, Page 5
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