MANIAC MURDERER.
Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 2. Joseph Tiger, a private in the AustraHungarian army, suddenly went mad in the barracks of the garrison at Stuhlweissenburg, and shot a lieutenant dead. Orders were forthwith given to seize Tiger, who was rushing about furiously, but no one dared to obey, all taking refuge in the barracks.
The crack shot of the regiment was ordered by the Captain to shoot Tiger, whereupon was witnessed an extraordinary scene, the maniac tearing around the barrack yard while being iired at from a window, and after receiving three wounds dually being killed.
The incident has excited intense indig' nation,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 291, 16 December 1901, Page 2
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