CONSTABLE KILLED
FIRED AT FROM AMBUSH OUTRAGE IN AUSTRALIA Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.40 a.m. DARWIN, To-day. A message from Katherine jdstes that Mounted Constable Clapp, while bringing a prisoner to Katherine, was ambushed and •not He died on the way to Kttherlne. Details are meagre. Clapp was rejjonsible for many prosecutions at Mamnboy. It is stated that a threat °* violence had been made. Another report states that Clapp jested a prisoner and took a revolver from him, which he stuck in ~ Wt, and which accidentally went A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 195, 7 November 1927, Page 1
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91CONSTABLE KILLED Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 195, 7 November 1927, Page 1
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