40-STONE BOY SHOT AT SIDESHOW
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"Bullet-Proof Lady" Just Missed SYDNEY MYSTERY
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(Eeceived 9, 12.5 p.m.) ) SYDNEY, April 8. At the Bathurst Showgrounds, Boberi White, aged 15, who weighs 40 stone and who is appearing in a sideshow as "Bonny Peter, the Pride of Blenheim," was struek in the back of the neek hy a hnllet which is alleged to have passed through the sideshow tent of the "Bullet-proof Lady" into his tent, Peter was taken in the special waggon in which he travels from show to show to a hospital, where the authorities were faced with a diffieult prohlem.- No bed or lounge was stroag enough to cope with his size and eventually he was made comfortahle in a large easy chair. The wound is superficial and his condition is not serious.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 70, 9 April 1937, Page 5
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