"THE HUMAN TARGET."

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13225, 30 September 1911, Page 3

"THE HUMAN TARGET."

LADY WHO STOPPED BULLETS.

One of tho "turns" at a vaudevillo show in Trinidad, Colorado, says a New York cable, was much more thrilling and realistic than it was intended to-be.' Tho sensation was provided by a lady with the suggeßtive name of Risk, who is billed as "the human target," and whoso "amazing feat," is it is advertised, consists in her catching between her teeth a bullet fired from a rifle across the stage. This act was included in the programme as usual, but. after the shot Mme. Risk fell on the stage with a shriek. The audience was stricken with horror, for everyone thought that the woman had been shot dead. It was discovered that although madanie had not been fatally injured, she had suffered a very ugly wound in the head.

It lias sinco leaked out that the bullets which Mme. Risk nightly stops are made not of lead, as the innocent imagine, but of wax. These bullets always melt by tho heat of the explosion in the rifle, and never reach Mmo. Risk. The real leaden bullet which the lady smilingly reveals caught between her teeth is one that she has concealed in her mouth, where it remains until thrust forth at tho right moment. Last night the waxen bullet failed to melt, hence all the trouble.