BULLET’S CURIOUS ANTICS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2020, 26 August 1919, Page 1

BULLET’S CURIOUS ANTICS.

A REMARKABLE MISHAP. Mr Arthur If. Lucas, of the touching stall' of the Sydney Grammar School, who, during the absence of the head-master at the war, was acting-head of the school, met with an extraordinary accident recently, says the Sydney Sun. He was shot, and the antics of; the bullet were remarkable. Mr Lucas was walking on to the Mortuary Station at Kogont Street, to attend a funeral, when he heard the faint report of a firearm. Almost simultaneously he felt a slight concussion in the head, and became somewhat dazed, though he recovered cfwickly. When he reached the cemetery, and took oil; his hat, he observed throe bullet holes in it. Ho then for the lirst time noticed that thh lower lid.of his right eye was very sore. Mr Lucas asked a friend to examine his eye, and when (his man pulled down the lid he found embedded in the corner a small bullet used in pea-rifles. Ho extracted it, although the lead had not punctured the mombrnneo. Mr Lucas said that the rifle must have been aimed high, for the bullet came from above, entered the crown of the hat, then emerged at the right Tide, and deflected again to the rim. It passed through this, struck him on the exterior of the lower eyelid, and, glancing upwards, glided along the eyeball. The force of, the bullet was almost completely spent by the time it struck the eye, for Mr Lucas stated that be docs not recollect even feeling it.