DANCE HALL FRACAS
THREE PERSONS WOUNDED BY PISTOL SHOTS ASSAILANT LATER COMMITS SUICIDE Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE. October 30. A youth and two young women were injured on Saturday night when Gordon Hart, aged 19, railway clerk. Frankston, entered a dance hall in Frankston and fired shots among the dancers with an automatic pistol. Hart later went to an adjacent recreation reserve and killed himself.
Peter Henry Mitchem, aged 17, was shot through the throat and leg. His condition is serious. Rose Brown, aged 20, and Phyllis Harper, aged 20, were also struck by bullets. The dance was held by the Boy Scout auxiliary and there were 270 present. Hart fired at Miss Harper first, it is stated. Dancers scattered in panic as Hart fired three more shots. Hart’s body was found at 2 a.m. with a bullet wound in the head.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1938, Page 5
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