Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-20 | Page 2 | Bang! and Another Piece of China Bites Dust, but Marksman Misses

Bang And Another Piece of China Bites Dust but Marksman Misses LOS ANGELES July 20 JP IP-In- door target practice appealed to Marvin Marvia Mar Mar- vin via F. F Martin as an ideal diversion on a ahot hot Sunday He He got cot out his new rifle rUle singled out a spot on the dining room wall waIl walland walland and blazed away In the adjoining apartment Mrs I F F. R. R Stewards Steward's best china butter dish on a a. wall rack split into numer numerous ous fragments and crashed to the floor Mrs Steward started picking up the pieces Meanwhile Martin who had missed his mark loaded up and find banged away again And another piece of ot Mrs Stewards Steward's chinaware are bit the dust Frightened Mrs Ste Steward ard dug in inin In inin in a far ar corner of or the room as th the bullets came whizzing through th the wall vall with considerable regularity Man Marvin Manin in wasn't hav having ing much luck wit with his target but but- was doing real well wel with the dishes on the other side o othe of the wall After more than thirty shots had been fired Mrs Steward got out unscathed unscathed un un- scathed and called the police With Wit Witha a do or die expression Marvin still stil was pumping lead Into the wall but bu hadn't hit his mark as yet He wa was charged with firing a 3 weapon within the city limits