WOMAN’S EXPERIENCE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 1 May 1947, Page 6

WOMAN’S EXPERIENCE

BULLET THROUGH ROOF EMBEDDED IN FLOOR To have a .303 bullet plummetting through the roof and land within 2ft. of ner bed was the unenviable experience of Mrs. M. E. Jukes, 34 Waitangi street, on Monday morning At 9.25 o’clock Mrs. Jukes, who has been confined to her bed for some time, heard a crash on the iron roof, and something fell onto the floor beside her bed. Thinking that some light fitting had fallen to the floor, Mrs. Jukes mentioned the matter to her husband when he came home. Mr. Jukes investigated and found a .303 bullet imbedded in the floor board. The bullet travelled through two thicknesses of iron roofing, through a plaster ceiling, pierced a thick mat ana a layer of linoleum and imbedded itself nearly half an inch into the floor boardinvestigations have been put into the hands of the police. It is thought that there was no ulterior motive behind the firing of the shot, but rather that someone on the hills in the vicinity of Gisborne fired the shot unthinkingly. Even after travelling two miles it is thought that the bullet would still have sufficient impetus to pierce the materials it did