A Bullet From Nowhere Struck a Boy in Quiet Steilacoom
A 13-year-old collapsed in the street with a .22-caliber slug in his leg. X-rays found the bullet; nobody could say who fired it.
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One of the wards of the Fannie Paddock hospital is a 13-year-old boy of Steilacoom, with a .22-caliber bullet hole in his knee. He was taken to the hospital soon after the accident happened, and an X-ray examination was made to locate the bullet. From the course of the bullet the surgeons are inclined to believe the wound may be a dangerous one.
The lad was going across one of the streets of Steilacoom yesterday when he suddenly fell to the ground with a severe pain in his knee. Several men ran to assist him to his feet, and they discovered a bullet hole in his leg. Where the bullet came from is a mystery to the residents of that quiet town.
“Where the bullet came from is a mystery to the residents of that quiet town.”
A 13-year-old in Steilacoom was hit by a bullet from nowhere; X-rays and a hospital ward were the frontier of forensic science. Random gunfire in a quiet town still produces the same question: where did the shot come from?
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