EXTRAORDINARY SHOOTING.
At Brooklyn (New York) Dr Ruth and his wife had been giving a remarkable exhibition of pistol and rille shooting. Mrs Ruth is about thirty years of age, and a brunette. After practising a short time the doctor put two cartridges in liie gun and aimed at the ground. The first charge was delivered on the ground in front of a glass ball. The disturbance of the flarth caused the ball to fiy upwards, when the doctor unloaded his spent cartridge and diecharged his piece, shattering the ball into a thousand fragments before it could reach the ground. This wonderful feat was several times repeated. His wife aimed at a suspended glass ball, the gun being thrown over her left shoulder and her back turned to the object, the shooter taking her sight from a small mirror placed on the end of the stock. This shot, which required wonderful strength and steadiness, was made with accurate precision. Then she took a small-bore rifle and fired at a glass ball flung in the air, striking first ten out of fifteen, and afterwards eight out of twelve. Dr Ruth placed a card over the sight of his pistol, and repeatedly broke glass balls suspended from a stick held at arm’s length by an attendant. He shattered glass balls as fast as they were thrown in the air. Finally he held the butt of the rifle at the back of his neck, and shot the balls as they descended, Mrs Ruth fired at a bit of card held in her husband’s mouth, hitting it two inches from his nose ; then she shattered a small piece of glass held between his fingers ; and finally she hit a small mark on a piece of card held by Dr Ruth, the lady delivering the shot while holding the guu upside down.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2441, 14 January 1881, Page 2
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307EXTRAORDINARY SHOOTING. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2441, 14 January 1881, Page 2
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