From the police blotter: Convicted felon demos gun, shoots self in hand

NICEVILLE — A 36-year-old convicted felon who accidentally shot himself was arrested for possessing a weapon. A witness told Niceville Police Department officers that the suspect was showing him the gun while his finger was on the trigger. The suspect then loaded the magazine, pulled back the slide and fired one round into his left hand, the witness said.
–Houma Courier, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

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Coleridge Taylor is searching for his next scoop on the police beat. The Messenger-Telegram reporter has a lot to choose from on the crime-ridden streets of 1975 New York. One story outside his beat is grabbing all the front page glory: New York teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, and President Ford just told the city, as the Daily News so aptly puts it, “Drop Dead.”