GUN DUEL IN THEATRE
' ' WATCHED BY CROWD NEW YORK, September 7. Two thousand persons watered a man fight a gun duel with a policeman in the lobby of the Plymouth Theatre, West 45th Street, New York. The gunman wounded the policeman, Joseph Schecker, then shot himself in the head. James Mitchell, negro doorman at the theatre, was seriously wounded. _ A man had told the policeman that the gunman had threatened him. The policeman chased the gunman,' who rushed into the theatre lobby. {
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1940, Page 8
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