GRIM TRAGEDY IN MID-OCEAN
MAD OFFICER SHOOTS CAPTAIN AND ANOTHER AND DROWNS HIMSELF By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 11.30 a.m. PARIS, Sunday. A French cargo steamer put in at Libreville, the chief town of the French settlements in the Gulf of Guinea, almost without officers. The crew relate that when the ship arrived at the Ivory Coast the chief engineer was stricken witli a mysterious illness and died in a few hours, being buried at sea. Next day the chief officer rushed on to the bridge, and without saying a word shot the captain dead. The wireless operator, hearing the shot, rushed out, and was also shot dead. The chief officer then dived in the sea and was drowned. It is believed that he was mad, through sunstroke. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 165, 3 October 1927, Page 1
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