ARMED WOMAN AMOK
(Press Assn.-
SHOT AT WOMAN NEIGHBOUR FOR MOWING HER LAWN GASSED OUT AND KILLED
— By Telegraph — Copyrlght.)
LOS ANGELES, Saturday Annoyed by a woman next door for mowing her lawn, Mrs. Ella Thompson fired at her. Then, when the poliee arrived she shot a policeman dead through a glass door, saying he had no warrant. Mrs. Thompson then engaged 30 police in a revolver battle for two hours, till they smoked her out with tear gas bombs. Mrs. Thompson emerged, firing right and left, and finally fell dead to an offieer's bullet.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 212, 2 May 1932, Page 5
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95ARMED WOMAN AMOK Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 212, 2 May 1932, Page 5
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