FOOLHARDINESS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12258, 8 June 1914, Page 5

FOOLHARDINESS.

WILD WEST SHOW. (Per Press Association.) Hamilton, June 8. i Captain M'Leod, a Wild' West showman, .'■who was recently fined; at Auckland for random shooting with, a.p.sasri&e, gained further prominence- on Saturday night at the Waikato Winter Show.- ."-Part of M'Leod's performance is to bore liole-s with bullets through threepenny-pieces held by members of the audience and shoot off the ash of cigarettes in people's mouths: A young man named Leslie Witeon, who lives near Hamilton, stood 1 out in the ring- smoking, and I 'M'Leod 1 fired, the bullet ■ entering the cheek of the'man, .finding an exit -through the mouth, grazing the tongue, and knocking but three teeth. A prosecution is probable.