SHOT IN THE BACK
SIDE SHOW MISHAP GIRL IN HOSPITAL [Per United Press Association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, June 9. Shot in the back by a bullet from a shooting gallery, Miss Enid Hay, aged 18, of New Plymouth, was admitted to hospital to-night. Another bullet struck an aged man, Frank Julian, passing through the sleeve of his overcoat and bruising his wrist. Miss Hay was walking slowly in the crowded sicle-show section of the Winter Show, when she was struck. She felt a blow in the back, and fell .to the ground. She rose to her feet, and bystanders noticed blood'on her clothing. She was attended by a doctor and taken to the hospital. It is hoped that the bullet lodged in the muscles of her back, and the case may not be serious, but late to-night the bullet had not been located. The shooting gallery was of the usual type. The bullets were fired through a tube at a target backed by a box of earth and metal plate. The bullets that struck Miss Hay and Julian passed through the box and plate and through both canvas walls of a sideshow alongside.
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Evening Star, Issue 22671, 10 June 1937, Page 18
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192SHOT IN THE BACK Evening Star, Issue 22671, 10 June 1937, Page 18
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