PANIC AT DANCE
YOUTHFUL GUNMAN’S ESCAPADE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 30, 11.25 p.m.) MELBOURNE, October 30. A youth and two young women were injured on Saturday night when Gordon Hart, aged 19, a railway clerk at Frankston, entered a dance hall in Frankston and fired shots from an automatic pistol among the dancers. Hart later went to an adjacent recreation reserve and killed himself. Peter Henry Mitchem, aged 17, was shot through the throat and leg, and his condition is serious. Rose Brown, aged 20, and Phyllis Harper, aged 20, were also struck with bullets. The dance was held by the Boy Scout Auxiliary, 270 being present. It is stated that Hart fired at Harper first. Tire dancers scattered in panic as Hart fired three more shots. Hart’s body was found with a bullet wound in the head.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21181, 31 October 1938, Page 9
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141PANIC AT DANCE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21181, 31 October 1938, Page 9
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