BULLET’S CURIOUS ANTICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16503, 2 August 1919, Page 12

BULLET’S CURIOUS ANTICS.

A -REMARKABLE MISHAP. Mv. Arthur H. Lucas, of tbo teaching staff of the Sydney Grammar School. \rho. during the absence of the headmaster at the war, was actinghead of the school, met with an cxtraorfonary accident recently, says the Sydney Sun. He was shot, and the antics of the bullet were remarkable. Mr. Lucas was walking on to the Mi.it navy Station at Regent Street, to attend a funeral, when he heard tho faint report of a firearm. Almost simultaneously ho felt a slight concussion in tho head, and became somewhat dazed, though he recovered quickly. When he reached the cemetery, and took off his hat, ho observed three, bullet-holes in it. Ho then for the first time noticed that tho lower lid of ids right eyo was very sore. Mr. Lucas asked a friend to examine Ids eye, and when this man pulled down tho lid ho found embedded in the corner si small bullet used in pea-rifles. Ho extracted it, although tho lead had not punctured tho membrane. Mr. Lucas said that tho rifle must have been aimed high, for tho bullet came from above, entered the crown of tho hat. then emerged at tho right side, and deflected again to the rim. It passed through this, struck him on tho exterior of the lower eyelid, and, glancing upwards, glided along the eyeball. The force of tho bullet was almost completely spent by tho time it struck tho oye, for Mr. Lucas stated that he docs not recollect oven feeling it.