The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-16
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 N EVER before has such shooting pt been seen in Baltimore as was done by the wizard, Adolph Top perwein. at Prospect park yesterday. A large crowd went to the park, expect ing to see remarkable work. Among the observers were the best marksmen in the state. What they saw was not merely remarkable, but astonishing and it will be long before the notable Texans ex- ploits will be forgotten.
 The spot selected was the Prospect Shooting associations grounds, and the members of that association and of the Baltimore Revolver association and others saw the work of the expert. Mir. Topper vein, the rife and revolver champion was accompanied by the champion trap shooter of the world, w. R. Crosby of O'Fallon, H., the two being under the management of J. Mowel Hawkins of this city.
 When Topperwein began to shoot, the crowd concluded that he was giving his most difficult work in the beginning of the performance, but fin this they were mistaken. He led off with some revolver shooting With a Russion model, 44-caii- Der, he paced off a dozen strides from a standing clay target and turning his back to 1t. he shot between his legs and smashed the object. He stood on his head and, with Hawkins holding his feet in the air. he smashed a target by sighting through a small looking glass.
 Planting two targets on small stakes about 10 feet apart he sat on the ground between them, crossed his arms and held a revolver in each hand and broke both objects simultaneously. He seated him self again, crossed his arms, sighted one revolver through the glass and simultan- eonsly broke both objects.
 With a rifle he broke targets faster than Hawkins could throw them into the air. Objects two inches square were hit as rapidly as thrown, and some of the blocks were hit three times before they reached the ground. Pieces of coal about an inch square thrown into the air made easy targets for him.
 Topperwen threw black walnuts up and cracked them with bullets faster than they could be cracked with nut crackers or a hammer. Then two wal nuts were thrown by him at once and cracked. Metal pieces the size of silver quarters were punctured with bullet holes as fast as thrown.
 Marbles of the smallest size, known by the boys as peewees, were thrown and hit and either broken or sent speeding out of sight with the bullet.
 One of his most remarkable perform ances was with a 22-calibre rifle He eject ed shell from the gun and. with a toss ing motion, sent 1t into the air. Then he shot the bullet out of its shell. He made two attempts at this, once shooting the point off the tiny bullet in the air and next separating the bullet entirely from the shell. He threw oranges up in the air and hit some of them three times before they hit the ground.
 Topperwein put four shots into a boys small baseball that had been thrown high, sending it bobbing in the air each time shot struck 1t. Then he tossed a loaded rifle shell into the air and shot the bull let out of it.
 He requested volunteer to hold a po- tato while he shot it Into chips. MT. J. H. Moxley. of the Prospect Shooting as- sociation, was full of nerve and he held the potato. The shooter lay on his stom- ach facing away from the mark, and by the aid of looking glass he shot the potato away piece by piece. After this Mir Moxley was complimented for the nerve he showed So impressed was Mir Moxley with Topperwen's accuracy that he said, Why, I'd let that man shave me with a pistol
 At a dozen paces eight bullets were fired by Topperwein through the center of d card in a space the size or a silver dime Then MT. Hawkins held the card edge toward the shooter and he cut II with bullet Hawkins then showed great nerve. He took four empty twelve-guase shotgun shells and slipped them over