SHOOTING GALLERY ACCIDENT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18267, 29 December 1924, Page 8

SHOOTING GALLERY ACCIDENT.

YOUTH SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.

(pMSS ABSOdITIOS THJCGXAU.) PALMEKSTON N., December 28. A youth; Thomas Smythc, sustained a gunshot wound in the chest at a public shooting gallery ou Saturday evening. Smythe was provided with eight rounds, and whilo the proprietor was adjusting the target he heard a muffled report, and upon returning to the shooting range he found the customer gone. On looking out he saw him walking down the street. No cry or exclamation at the injury had been made by Smythe. The next scene was enacted in a lounge in the same street, where Smythc took a seat, and then lay across a table, groaning. He explained that he had caught the rifle in his clothing, and it had gone off, the bullet entering his chest. The proprietor examined the wound, which evidently wa3 made by a small bore rifle, and which was bleeding slightly. Marks of the rifle's explosion were apparent on the shirt. A doctor ordered Smythe's removal to the hospital, where his condition is regarded as seriou3, although he is still eonscious. The police are of the opinion that the wound was accidentally inflicted.