A Real Life "Shocker."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 September 1910, Page 4

A Real Life "Shocker."

LLXATIC'S EXTR.AOIIDINARY ACT. A London correspondent writes: A passenger on the Metropolitan Railway had an experience this week such as you seldom hear of outside the pages of a shilling "shocker." .Alv \Y. (i. frost was placidly reading his earning paper in a lirst-class carriage on his way home from Hakeir street to Ihiislip, when ho suddenly heard a laugh. 'Looking

up. ho saw a young man, the only other_ occupant nl' the compartment, covering him with a revolver. The stranger tired, wouiding .Mr Krost

n the jaw. and then attacked him orociously. ,\ fierce struggle iolowed. Wounded ; , s he was. and akon at a disadvantage hv the sudlenness of the nusluaght.' Mv Krost ievertlieles.<} made a despornte fight : or his life. Klnws wore struck and

arried. ami the cruiihalants swaye: n<l stru-gh ' :, the (rain sped pas rarlb(-ri;-n«!i i-,.-,d station. M

I'Yost. :' ,)>(■ ln\ 17 yea is. is a p:>werful man. Jmt t!:e \v,.,,,„| ~n , | |.; !t shock rapiily draine I h-'s v»!o.-i"-t'i. and he I'elt himself sinking, .his. as lie was up hope he I'elt th. train slackening spred. The a? ■sai'ant. noticed it t:i:>. an:l b?.|'on

the train ran into Swiss cottage stati; n. .ho leapt from the carriage anc disappeared, leaving his victim ii. n state of collapse. A passenger in the next coinpa>rtnient saw the assailant jump from the train and rim into the tunnel. At Swiss Cottage station the train was pulled up ami the injured man •removed, while police officers .searched the tunnel. Thoy caught the man, and on searching him" found .papers in his poeket referring to a lunatic asylum. ~e is now' mulcn remand on the charge of shootim•Mr Frost. The latter had been ■shot throup;]) the front of the chin the bullet splintering the jaw ant' coming out heneath the chin, within half an inch of the throat. Therevo vor used by the man was afterwards found on the line. Tn the prisoner's pockets the police found a box- of 43 cartridges two "bottles nt chloroform, a bottle of laudanum and a tin of cotton wool.