BULL RING FATALITY
SPECTATOR THE VICTIM SWORD TOSSED BY ANIMAL MADRID, August 7 The spectators at a bull fight in Corunna were horrified to-day by an incident unprecedented in the history of the bull ring. When a veteran fighter, Juan Belmonte, was about to kill an infuriated animal, it tossed its head and nurled the matador's sword among the spectators. The weapon pierced the chest of an enthusiastic Spaniard, who flung; it back towara the ring and then died. The sword, however, fell short and seriously injured another spectator.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21874, 9 August 1934, Page 11
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