BRAVE WAITRESS.
UNAFRAID OF CUSTOMER FIRING
REVOLVER.
It was a motiveless crime and must have been due to a sudden impulse ef insanity white toying with a German Mauser pistril, declared the coroner at an inquest at Sunderland on Cecil Moralee, 17, who blew his brains out at the Havelock Kinema restaur-i ant, Sunderland, after shooting and wounding Mr Park, a stranger. A waitress at the restaurant said that she ran towards; Moralee on hearing the first shot. She saw; him! fire the second. He did not appear to point the pistol at anyone in th© room when he fired. 'As she appr’dached him. he smiled, but then shouted, "Get out of it.” She still went towards him, ahd he put the pistol, to his temple and fired a bullet through his head and fell, The coroner said that he was 'coni vinced that Moralee had not ‘aimed at Mr Park when he fired the first two shots. He warmly complimented! the waitress on her courage.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4371, 27 January 1922, Page 3
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166BRAVE WAITRESS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4371, 27 January 1922, Page 3
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