THREE PERSONS SHOT.
SHELL-SHOCKED SOLDIER'S DEED London, March 12. A man named Weir, a shell-shucked soldier, ran amok in the working-class district of Brighton on Sunday afternoon. A railwayman named Parker, who was feeding ids chickens, was suddenly shot* in ths stomach. His sister-in-law ran to bis help and another .shot seriously wounded her. As she fell she saw their neighbour, Weir, punning a double-barrelled gun from the window. The third shut grazed the forehead of a man looking from the window of another house. The noise- attracted two men from their gardens. Weir cried, "Go back or 'I will shoot," They fetched the police, who found Weir dying, having taken a dose of cyanide of potassium. His aged mother in the meanwhile had disarmed him and handed the police the gun. a quantity of ammunition and a bomb. Weir had been behaving strangely of late owing to a wound received in the war.
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Otaki Mail, 14 March 1923, Page 4
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