CARTRIDGES EXPLODE.
CONSTABLE HIT BY BULLET. A TRAMLINE MYSTERY. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 23. A constable on point duty at the intersection of Willis Street and Lambton Quay had an unpleasant but puzzling experience just before six o’clock last night. As a tram car passed him, a series of explosions rung out and a bullet hit him on the lobe of the right ear. An examination of the tram line showed that 'seventeen revolver cartridges, mostly exploded by the tram, were in the groove of the rails. How the}' got there is a problem, for if they were deliberately deposited, it must have been done at the most crowded corner of .the city and in the presence of the constable himself.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16846, 23 September 1922, Page 9
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122CARTRIDGES EXPLODE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16846, 23 September 1922, Page 9
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