ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.
SHOT BY HIS SON. [PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.] WELLINGTON, Nov. 19. diaries Symes, a middle-aged mail residing in Petone, was taken to the hospital on Sunday night, suffering from a buffet wound from a pea rifle. He and his son (aged Id years) were out shooting on Sunday afternoon, when the latter accidentally shot him in the head. Symes had fired at a rabbit and missed, and in dodging so as to give his son an opportunity to shoot ho received the contents of his son s pea-rifle in the back of the head. Yesterday morning the injured man was progressing well, and a slight operation was performed at mid-day. ITis condition, however, was reported to be dangerous last evening, and the bullet has not been extracted.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3684, 20 November 1912, Page 2
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129ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3684, 20 November 1912, Page 2
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