Stirling Observer - 1915

[DeeMacD]

Hi,
I'm hoping some kind person with access to Scottish newspapers might look up an article for me please.  Date: 22 June 1915.  The article is about Helen Nash Hughes, she was injured when she swept rifle cartridges into a fire. 
Thank you so much in advance.  Dee 

[Lenagh]

Hi Denise,

I just sent you a pm in response!

Lenagh

[DeeMacD]

Hi Lenagh,

Thank you so much for doing this for me, its people like you who make Rootschat a great place to visit.

Dee 

[dawnsh]

Any chance of posting a transcription so that others can read about it?

[Lenagh]

My pleasure! 

[Fergie38]

So what did the Observer say about it ?

[Lenagh]

Rifle cartridge in the Fire.  Explodes and injures Stirling woman.
''On Wednesday afternoon, while Helen Nash or Hughes, wife of Bernard Hughes, miner, 13 Seaforth Place, Stirling, was cleaning the top of the kitchen grate, she swept a blank rifle cartridge, with which her boy had been playing, into the fire.  The cartridge exploded, and the shell struck Mrs Hughes on the left hand and arm, inflicting ragged wounds on the fingers and wrist.  Dr Laidlaw dressed the injuries.''  (Stirling Observer, 22 and 26 June 1915)

[Fergie38]

 Thanks for that Lenagh.
   I was bursting with curiosity.   .

[josey]

Thanks from me too, interesting....good job 'her boy' did not throw it on the fire!!