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Show Vaudeville Actor Shot By Headliner CHICAGO, June 25. Joseph aJ Hack of Milwaukee, a vaudeville actor appearing at a Chicago theatre, was accidentally shot late today by Miss Kitty Gordon, headliner on the bill. The shooting occurred during the next to the last act In the matinee performance, per-formance, while Hack was standing "off stage" awaiting his turn in' the final act. The .38-ca.Iiber revolver used by Miss Gordon In the scene in whlch'she takes part with her husband, Jack' Wilson, supposedly contained only, blank cartridges. According to the police, however, it' developed that the revolver had been! used off the stage by Wilson as a safeguard safe-guard against the theft of his wife's: jewels, and inadvertently had left one, loaded cartridge in the weapon. j Hack wa3 taken to a hospital. no . |