REVOLVER DUEL
WOMAN KILLED
SMOKED OUT BY POLICE.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m) LOS ANGELES, April 29. Annoyed by a woman next doer mowing the lawn, Mrs Elia Thompson fired at her. Then, when the police arrived, she shot one constable dead, through a glass door, saving that they hud no warrant.
Mrs Thompson then engaged with thirty police in a revolver battle for two hours till they smoked her out with tear gas bombs.
She emerged firing to right and let, and then finally fell dead to an officer’s bullet.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1932, Page 5
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97REVOLVER DUEL Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1932, Page 5
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