Colonel Gaston Bordeverry

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Sharpshooting display with the use of an assistant and audience volunteers.
Bordeverry shot a lump of sugar off of newspaperman Peter S. McNally's head, shot off Mlle Leonie de Lausanne's (his female assistant) dress, extinguished a candle via gunshot and performed other sharpshooting feats.
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Boston Daily Globe (05/2/1906)