A Brutal Murder.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1922, Page 2

A Brutal Murder.

FIELD MARSHALL WILSON KILLED. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 22. Field Marshall Wilson was shot dead outside bis hoiviC ill Eaton Place as he was leaving bis motor car in ffoflt Ot his residence shortly after three id the the afternoon, after returning from the unveiling of a war memorial at Great Eastern Railway station Two men suddenly appeared and fired three shots. All struck Wilson, who died immediately His assailants were hotly pursued. One finding himself being overtaken, turned the revolver on j hadlv hurt. He was sent to the bos nitai The second was quickly captured. There is little doubt the assailants are Shut Femora. . , The House of Commons immediately adjourned on receipt of news ot *>' son’s murder. A policeman rushed to the scene and the miscreants hied and wounded him in the stomach and also wounded a civilian, who came to S ° The '"assailants dashed down Eaton PUIcL with revolvers, covering the Abator message states the assassins i • o’RrifMi and «Tmncs Connell)» heved to be associated with the I.R-A.

fotitbee Mlgg B . Vn eye witness relates that Wilson Jr.s»»«*" * ” t house, when men " 10 l“ PP fired' with fuged behind a ’ ducke d, the heavy levohers. and turned Ins first shots missit g ’ , then shot face to his assailants nho ™ and struck him on the the‘lean, C ,l The brougham mysteriously v ished when the firing began-