Four rifle mishaps leave one dead and three injured
Sydney reports a girl of 18 died at West Wyatong Hospital after a back shot at a picnic from a .22 rifle. A 19 year old at Lidadale shot himself in the toe while cleaning a rifle. In Deniliquin a 42 year old man shot himself in the chest taking a rifle from his truck. A 16 year old was wounded in the arm by a bullet ricochet in Burwood. Also noted, circus performer Siegfred Wassberger walked 300 kilometres on his hands over 100 days from Salzburg.