AN ACTOR SHOT.
ACCIDENT IN PERFORMANCE. BULLET INSTEAD OF WAD. When the last mail left South Aus- ' ti alia Mr Wilton Power, an actor .well known in New r Zealand, was lying-in the Port Pirie Hospital suffering fiwi the effects of a revolver bullet. He was performing in “Little Nellie Kelly", with the Lionel Walsh Company, in which he .has to be shot at by one of the other characters. On this night the revolver went off as us.ual, but Mr Power was found, to have been wounded. At first it wias thought to be the wad from the cartridge only which had inflicted the wound, but an X-ray examination showed the presence of a bullet an inch and a half deep in the flesh. One of the cartridges with wtych the re- ' volver was charged had been lef| intact, instead of, as is usual, having the bullet removed. Three days after’ the accident Mr Power was on th’e high road to recovery, and said there would be nothing to prevent him appearing with the company in Perth at Christmas. “
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4922, 6 January 1926, Page 2
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180AN ACTOR SHOT. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4922, 6 January 1926, Page 2
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