SHOOTING SENSATION

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 152, 23 March 1921, Page 5

SHOOTING SENSATION

INTOXICATED MAN RUNS AMUCK '

SEVERAL PEOPLE WOUNDED

N.S.ff. LEGISLATOR NOT EXPECTED TO

RECOVER

By Telegraph—Press Associatiou-Oopyriglit.

(Rec. March 22, 11, p.m.) Adelaide, March 22.

An intoxicated man ran amuck at Riverton railway station, shooting with a revolver a woman and four men before being overpowered by Mr. Percy Brookfield, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, who was shot twice in the stomach. A Russian. journalist named Koornat Tomayeff is in custody charged, with the shooting. It appears he was travelling from Broken Ilill, and when the train was stationary at Riverton and the passengers were hurrying from the breakfast refreshment room he drew a revolver and fired promiscuously about the platform. He reloaded several times, firing fortyone shots. Mr. Brookfield secured a revolver, and while Tomayeff was reloading grappled' with him. During the struggle Mr. Brookfield was shot and is not 'expected to recover. Other victims were: Mrs. Rice, of Broken Hill, dangerously wounded in the breast: Mrs W. Crowhurst, of Pariiiiroo, and William Smith, of .Peterborough, shot in the leg; William George, of Nanmup, shot in the thigh. Mr. Brookfield has been taken to Adelaide by a special train.—Press Assn.