SHOCK FOR DRIVER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23274, 17 February 1939, Page 10

SHOCK FOR DRIVER

STRUCK BY PROJECTILE TAXI WINDOW PUNCTURED A small projectile punctured the side window of a moving taxi cab and struck and dazed the driver, Mr. Henry Hatch, widower, of 3 Earl Street. Parnell, near the top of Parnell Riseshortly after o o'clock yesterday after-, noon. The hole in the window was of small calibre, and the incident occasioned conjecture as to whether, a spent bullet, an air-gun pellet or • stone from a child's catapult might have been the cause. Having picked up a passenger i u Newmarket. Mr. Hatch was driving him to the railway station through Parnell when there was a distinct click on the window in the left-hand front door and Mr. Hatch was struc sharply on the left temple bv some tiny object. The passenger drew Mr. Hatch s a tention to the fact that the w01 '" was bleeding and he stopped 1 0 wound was only a slight cut in t « skin. Both passenger and driver ha been sprinkled with minute fragments of glass. On the outside the hole M the window was barely a quarter o an inch in diameter, while the insi 0 of the glass appeared to have been gouged out to the diameter or shilling. Mr. Hatch proceeded to the station and the matter was then reported to the police, who searched' the car wit out discovering anything, to siiff2 es the cause of the occurrence. Mr. Hatch drove to the Aucklano Hospital, where he was examined an treated in the casualty departnien and advised to return for a furt p examination to-day.