The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-07-11
GIRL HAS NARROW ESCAPE
Bullet Which Wounds Kram r Passes
Through Hair of Child Sitting in
Front of Him-No Excitement in Au-
dience-Wounde Man VIII Recover.

Thursday evening enjoying the moving
picture show, Martin Kramer, an en-
'ploye of the Pennoyer Sanitarium, was
struck on the head by a stray bullet
free by some Fourth of July rioter and
seriously injured.
The accident was the most peculiar
that ever occurred in the city, and it is
a miracle that some one was not killed
outright in the crowded audience. Just
before O'Clock, while the show was
going ON, one of the employees of the
house reported to the manager, Joseph
Rhode that man IN the audience had
been struck by torpedo or fire cracker
thrown from the gallery ana injured.
Manager Rhode, who was on the stage
at the time the accident was reported
to him, at once vent down the cen
ter aisle and saw Kramer who was sit
ting in the very center of the audience
leaning forward in his seat with his
head resting on the seat in front of
him as if sleeping or in a faint. Mr.
Rhode tried to arounse the man from
his stupor, but as he took hold of
Kramer he discovered that the blood
was streaming from a wound in his
forehead just over the left eye. Call
ing one of the ushers to his assistance
Kramer was quietly removed to one of
the store rooms in the theatre building
without alarming the audience in the
theatre. In fact, few in the audience
knew that any one had been injured i'll
any way. The police ambulance was
Immediately summoned and the injured
man removed. DR.. Beemer was called
and he discovere at once that Kramer
had been shot. The doctor ordered
Kramer taken to his office where the
wound was probed and thirty eight
calibre bullet removed.
The bullet entered the mans skull
under the skin four or five inches long,
lodging behind the left ear, making a
serious, but not necessarily fatal wound.
Kramer is resting easily at the hospital
today, and unless unexpected compli-
cations develop, he is expected to re-
cover.
After Kramer had been removed from
the theatre Manager Rhode began q
searching investigation in an effort to
locate the cause Of the accident. None
of the people sitting in the theatre in
the vicinity of the seat occupied by
Kramer had heard or seen anything out
Of the usual until the wounded man fell
forward unconscious in his seat and
visit TO the gallery Of the theatre con-
WINGED Manager Rhode at a glance that
there was no one there who could have
been responsible for the man s injuries
A little girl sitting just in front of the
seat occupied by Kramer furnished the
first clew to the solution Of the mys-
terry. She insisted that something must
have been thrown from the stage as
she felt something pass through her
hair just as Kramer was hurt, and this
turned the attention Of the employees of
the theatre and the manager to the
front Of the house. A moment IS search
there disclosed bullet hole through
the screen on which the moving pictures
are thrown and tracing this back an
other hole was found through the screen
of the door at the back Of the stage.
The little girl whose story led to the
discovery Of the cause of the accident
had miraculous escape from being in
stantly killed, as the bullet which
struck Kramer must have passed
through her hair. She is seven years
old and is here from Milwaukee on a
visit to her brother, the machine OPP
orator at the house. She has made
many friends around the theatre and
her narrow escape from death shook
the nerves of the theatre employees
more than The accident to Kramer.
The police and Manager Rhode have
reached the conclusion that the bullet
which struck Kramer must have been
fred from Pearl street in the vicinity
Of the Bode Bros. store corner. With
the exception of the stage door low
down in the center, the back of the
theatre presents the appearance of be-
ing soidly built wall and the theory
of the police and Mr.. Rhode is that
some royster failed to notice the door
and fired a shot from his revolver IN
der the impression that he was shooting
at blank wall. A search of the streets
and alleys in that locality failed to re-
veal any one who could be held respon-
sible for the accident The accident q
likely to lead to one good result, and
that is that there will be crusade
against the carrying of weapons in the
city and movement for the passage
of more drastic Fourth of July ordi-
nance that will prevent all shooting on
the streets Of the city.