GRUESOME
AFTER MURDER, MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF BY COFFIN (Received 12.20 p.m.) VANCOUVER, Tuesday. The City of Yazo, with a population of 5.000, in the State of Mississippi, was the scene of a curious tragedy when Mayor Strickland killed Frank B rdsall, the editor of the local paper. Birdsall had been campaigning against Strickland’s administration. The Mayor, becoming furiously drunk, invaded the newspaper office and fired three shots into the editor’s body.
He then went to his son’s undertaking parlours, where, standing alongside a coffin he had previously picked for himself, committed suicide.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 937, 2 April 1930, Page 9
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92GRUESOME Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 937, 2 April 1930, Page 9
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