CAMBRIDGE SHOOTING

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1930, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE SHOOTING

POTT’S STRANGE CONDUCT

LONDON, June 4

The strange story of the life in London of D. M. Potts, the student at King’s College, Cambridge, who shot dead his tutor, Dr. A. F. R. Wollastpn, mortally wounded ■ Detective Willis, and c(j mini it ted suicide, was given by Madge Miller, who sheltered Potts and another young man in her fiat in Shaftesbury avenue, .where they arrived one pouring wet night. Miss. Miller said she gleaned that Potts, was in some kind ,of financial difficulty, and was being pressed by a Russian. She persuaded him to return to Cambridge. He had an automatic: re viver, which he carried in his pocket full of cartridges, and he hinted that lie would not be taken alive, Sir managed to hide the revolve! several times, but he ' always found it again. Potts seemed to have money later, and went to theatres and kmemas several times. She could not understand a curious incident, Potts once . appealed in spectacles, with his hair waved and dyed.a ginger colour. r j)> many of Ins associates Potts claimed the title of Prince of Lor* raincp He wore most bizai're clothes —scarlet or. canary pull-over, vivid stockings, and a cap worn back to front. He invariably; carried a disguise, .which he used when drilling round the villages. The tradesmen of Cambridge recently received a Circular warning them 1 against Potts because of his lavish and indiscriminate orders.

'The detective’s dying depositions reveal that when the shooting occurred Potts was under, cross examination in regard to six criminal offences alleged' against him.