SHOT AT SHOW
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Bullets from Shooiing Gallery GIRL AND MAN HIT
(By Telegraph-
NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Nxgixt. Shot in the back by a bullet from a shooting gallery Miss Enid Hay, aged 18, of New •Plymouth, was admitted to the hospital to-night. Another bullet struck an aged man, Frank Julian; passing through the sleeve of hia overcoat and bruising his wifst. Mis3 Hay was walking slowly in the crowded sideshow section of the winter show wh'en she was struck. She felt a blow in the back and f ell to the grouhd. She xose to her feet and bystanders noticed blood on her clothing. She was attended by a doctor and taken to the hospital. It is hoped the bullet has: lodged in the muscles of the back and' the cass may not be serious, but late to-night the bullet had not been- located. The shooting gallery was the usnal type, the bullets being fired through a tube at a target baeked by a box of earth and a metal plate. The bullets that struck Miss Hay and Julian passed through the box and plate and through .the box and plate and through both canvas walls of a sideshow alongside.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 123, 10 June 1937, Page 8
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