A UNIQUE SIEGE.
VIOLENT LOVER SURRENDERS. Ur Electric Telegraph—Copyright j (United Press association. 1 Budapest, June 6. Tomsic renewed his firing at daybreak. The police repeatedly fired volleys. Tomsic, armed with a Browning revolver, had three hundred cartridges. He killed three and .wounded nineteen, and then yielded oh the preist’s appeal to him to surrender. The firing destroyed the altar and many pictures in the church. A message received on Saturday, stated: A farm laborer named Tomsic killed a farmer named Krauser and his wife, in revenge for their refusal to consent to his engagement to their daughter. Tomsic also wounded the daughter. He then took refuge in i church steeple and wounded three of his pursuers. Gendarmes surrounded the church, and Tomsic is withstanding a siege.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 39, 8 June 1914, Page 5
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127A UNIQUE SIEGE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 39, 8 June 1914, Page 5
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