Running Amok.
EBGHT PERSONS KILLED. HOLDING UP A TOWN. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.40 a.m.) Home, July 14. Simmons Pianetti, a miller, at Brembana, fatally shot eight persons, including a doctor, the town clerk, the clerk's (laughter, a priest, the priest's bedridden mother, a shoemaker, and finally his own brother, who was working in the fields, and tried to disarm him. When the running amok commenced, the townsfolk barricaded themselves in their houses. Piannetti held up the town for 3i hours, and finally escaped. Piannetti, who was a well-known blackmailer, recently compelled his father to give him £BOO at the point of the revolver. The murders were due to his desire to revenge himself for recent financial reverses.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 71, 15 July 1914, Page 5
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121Running Amok. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 71, 15 July 1914, Page 5
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