GUN DUEL IN THEATRE
NEW YORK, Sept. 7 Two thousand persons watched 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23759, 12 September 1940, Page 10
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