ATTACKED BY A MADMAN.
During a . concert in the Circo de Rivas, Madrid, on April 5, a madman, ■with an axe in his hand, forced his way through the adjoining gardens’and into the theatre. > He killed, with four blows on the head, a doorkeeper, who resisted his entry on the stage, mounted thereon, barricaded himself with tables and chairs, and, brandishing his axe, dared anybody to approach him. The police drew their swords, but he wounded two of them who went within his reach, and defied the soldiers who were sent for. Eventually the officer, fearing he would make an onslaught on the audience, ordered one of his men to shoot him. He fell dead.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2255, 9 June 1880, Page 3
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115ATTACKED BY A MADMAN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2255, 9 June 1880, Page 3
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