A TRAGEDY
MAN RESISTS ARREST.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received Ibis day at 8 a.in.) PARIS, November 23
Determining to avoid arrest for theft, a 22 year old Spaniard Almarez, barricaded himself in a. house and fired a. revolver at the police who donned steel waistcoats and began to flood the house with gas, in which also were Almarez’s mistress and her four year old son. The latter ran. out shouting- “They arc dead,” Almarez having shot himself and his mistress in her son’s presence. One constable succumbed to wounds.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1930, Page 5
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91A TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1930, Page 5
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