SMASHED BILLIARD SALOON & SHOPS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1654, 22 January 1913, Page 6

SMASHED BILLIARD SALOON & SHOPS.

AUSTRIAN' .RUljfS AMOK.■.:'.' !■■ (By Telegraph.—Press Association,) '' . Darg'avill'e, January 21. i ■ An Austrian or Croatian rati amuk last night, and created groat excitement. Ho arrived from tho. country in , tho after-.. noon, and secured'lodging at a boarding-: house frequented by his countrymen. Ho was "queer" in tho evening, and wis induced to; go to bed. About 9 o'clock ho rushed into a billiard room in the piemiscs, clothed" only in his singlet. • Ho seized two cues, and smashed the lamps and fittings, people in tho'room' fleeing tor safety. The man gained • tho 'street and weoked the acetylene lights, Under the verandah. Ho attacked store ' kept by an Austrian, completely demolishing one of the plate-glass windows and damaging* tho other. Ho proceeded down the street and entered'another shop and struck'tho proprietor, injuring his eye so that it uecded medical attention.' Tho .man wrecked tho shop cofos and.fittings. Hero ho was secured and taken to the lock-up. At the beginning of tho frenzy he was singing' Balkan war songs, and declared lie was guarding the gates of Cbnshiitiuople. His mental condition has not improved to-day. ...