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At Whittington, Lichfield, yesterday, while the recruits of the 3rd Staffordshire Militia were practising firing exercise with dummy, cartridges, one of the men fired a live cartridge. The bullet went through the head of Private William Hill, who was cleaning his bayonet in one of the tents. He lies in the garrison hospital in a precarious condition.It is not known how the live cartridge came to be mixed with the dummies.
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London St James Gazette
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Jun 23, 1904
Page 8
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