Load of Birdshot Strikes Etta May Dula, Dec. 10, 1920

Etta May Dula was not mistaken for a rabbit yesterday at noon, but she had a right to think her end had come when a load of birdshot went screeching through the window of Mr. H.C. Lutz’s kitchen, where she was preparing the midday meal, shattering the glass and filled her arm and side with fine missiles. It was estimated that between 50 and 60 shots found lodgement, and Dr. Blackburn removed a number of them. Master Rorance Lutz Jr., who was in the kitchen, was scratched by flying glass, but his wounds were not as painful as those of the colored woman. She was game, however, and is back at her post today. Joe Shell and some other boys were tracking rabbits in the snow back of Seventeenth Street about noon yesterday when one ran into the Lutz woodhouse. One of the boys scared it out and Mr. Shell lunged at it with his gun. It was then that the weapon was discharged, sending its load through the kitchen window. The young man, who was as frightened as the woman, expressed his sincere regrets. The rabbit escaped. (From the Hickory Daily Record, Dec. 10, 1920)