DANGEROUS SHARPSHOOTING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 135, 8 June 1914, Page 5

DANGEROUS SHARPSHOOTING.

YOTJNG MAN INJURED. SHOT THROUGH THE CHEEK. (Bj- Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) lIAiHLTOX , . this day. , Captain McLeod, the Wild Webt showman, got himself into trouble at the Wu.ik-.no Winter Show on .Saturday night. McLeod was entertaining j. crowd with tin exhibition of "crack " .shooting, members of the audience being invited to hold up <-oi«i- which .McLeod boTcl holes through with Vullets ait a few yard-: distance. An invitation was extended ti> members of the audience to 'Yitand out.' , -mokingcigarette*, the ash of which MiLetxi guaranteed to re-move with a bullet. A young man named Leslie Wilt-on, aged about 2~>. a resident of Xewatea-d, accepted the invitation. McLeod fixed, the cigarette fell, and Wilson threw up hi-* a.rni.s and dropped to Ihe ground with a. groan. eho(. through the cheek. As the man did "or aLtempt to rise, the show was quickly cleared, and a doctor called in. It was then found that tile bullet had pier.-cd Wilson's left cheek anil fouii.] an exit through his month, grazing Ip-i tongue and knocking out three of lrtpeth. The *bow was eontrmicl Liter. but there were no more experiment- on i-icfa.rptte a-h thnt night. A prcer-rution >v::i probably follow."