Woman and Revolver
FIVE BULLETS MISS MARK. Attention was lately drawn in Paris to a curious defect in existing laws about firearms. A woman known by her neighbours to be half-witted bought a revolver, and, anxious to try it, she opened fire on the first person she met as she entered her flat. Fortunately all five bullets missed their mark. A police-officer took the woman to the Commissioner, but she very shortly icturned, still with her revolver. No action could be taken against the woman since she had not carried the weapon in a public place. The other tenants of the building in which she lives are in terror lest sho should indulge in further shooting practice, but they can do nothing about it. If they wish to take action for their own protection they must first deposit with the police a sum sufficient to cover the expenses of a report by two mental specialists and at the same time make a substantial payment into court to constitute themselves civil parties in
a prosecution. This is the only possible course, unless the owner of the revolver actually shoots someone. It is suggested that should this happen the tenants would be justified in suing the State for complicity in homicide by negligence.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 125, 28 October 1930, Page 7
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