AN ACTOR SHOT
DURING A: PERFORMANCE AVLen The Hast iiia.il left fcVnjUi Australia Mr W ilton Power, an actor well known in New Zealand, was lying in the Port Piric Hospital suffering from” tlie effects of. a revolver bullet, lie was. performing in “Little Nellie Kelly” with the Lionel Walsh Company,'.lb which he lias to be ihot at by one of the other characters. On tjiis night the revolver went off as usual, but Mr Power was found to have been wounded. At first, it was thought to he the wad from the (ar-t-ridge only which had indicted the wound, but an X-ray examination showed the presence of a bullet an inch and a ’half deep in the flesh. One of the cartridges with which the revolver was charged had been left intact, instead of, as usual, having the bullet removed. Three days after the accident Mr Power was on the high road to recovery, and said there would he nothing to prevent him appearing with the company in Perth at Christmas.
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Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 675, 6 January 1926, Page 6
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