SENSATION AT WAIHI.
BULLET THROUGH WINDOW. WAS IT MEANT TO KILL ? A startling incident occurred at Waihi just off Seddon Street, the main business thoroughfare, on Saturday evening. A bullet passed through the only -unfrosted pane of a window of Mr F. A. Stamp’s billiard saloon ajul at which the proprietor was standing at the time. The bullet missed him by a matter of inches only, and passed through the window opposite. There were several patrons in the room.
The whole matter is wrapped in mystery, afid if the Shot was fired with intent Mr Stamp cannot account for it, as he knows of nobody he would expect to do him an injury. The fact, however, remains that it is remarkable that the bullet should have passed through the only dear pane of glass in the window that with the 'lights on Mr Stamp’? figure would have been clearly seen by anybody outside, and that the explosion was so loud that the weapon must have been discharged from a, vacant section at a distance of but a few yards.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5024, 8 September 1926, Page 2
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179SENSATION AT WAIHI. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5024, 8 September 1926, Page 2
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