STRAY BULLET

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 64, 13 September 1926, Page 8

STRAY BULLET

STRIKES WINDSCREEN OF CAR,

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

Whilst motoring near Kaituna, shortly before 12 o'clock yesterday, E. A. Johnson, of Sumner, heard something striko the windscreen of his car just in a line with his eyo. The occupants of tho car. wero showered with very lino splinters of glass. Investigation showed that on the inside a depression had been mado in the glass about tho size of the top of a man's thumb. The screen had been cracked right across the corner, and a small triangular hole made in the glass at tho point of contact with the missilo. .Prom the fact that the glass • Hew diagonally across tho car and reached the occupants in the back seat, it appears that tho glass was struck from the front, possibly by a glancing blow.

Thero is little room for doubt that the trouble was caused by a stray bullet. There wore seven in the car, four adults and throe children, and although some of the glass, struck their faces, no one was hurt.