ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
- - _ THROWN FROM A TRAP. A WOMAN'S DEATH. (Per Pre6s Association.) LEVIKf, Monday. At the in-iUest on Sai'ah Gyles > a v&rdict of accidental death was returned. She hut! in a precarious state of health for some time past, and the shock of being thrown from the trap caused her death. The motor ear mentioned: in connection with the case was proved to having been driven slowly. When it passed the trap the horse became frightened, and the driver pulled it almost at right angles across the road, which action precipitated both occupants from the \ ehici?, i . n THE DEADLY PEARIFLE. WELLINGTON, Monday. The deadly pearifle is in evidence again. Yesterday a young fellow named Hubert White (19) was admitted to the hospital suffering from a gunshot wound in the chest. It appears that when out shooting at Aramoho yesterday he put his pearifle on the ground with the muzzle pointing- towards his chest, when by some unexplicable means, the gun went off. The wound is in a serious position but there is no great danger at present, though the bullet has not yet been extracted.
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Waikato Times, Issue 12182, 18 September 1911, Page 5
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