SHOOTING AFFAIR
FUSILLADE IN STREET
CHILD'S NARROW ESCAPE
(fieceivea 4th January, 1.30 p.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day
Another shooting affray occurred ■when a man opened fire on another at Erskinville. A story of jealousy lies behind the desperate affair. One bullet struck a perambulator in which, was a six-months-old child. The escape of the infant was nothing short of miraculous. The bullet hit a small steel buckle on a strap above the baby's clothes and was deflected. Had it missed the buckio the child must have been killed. Dozens of children were playing in the streets and the bullets whistled around them. Ernest Palmer, aged 23, was walking down the street when a young man sprang at him with a revolver, took aim, and fired, the bullet going wide. When the gunman had omptied the revolver he disappeared.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1932, Page 7
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137SHOOTING AFFAIR Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1932, Page 7
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