YOUNG MAN RUNS AMOK.
FIRES AT A PASSING TRAM-CAR. By Tclcgrapli—Press Association. Dunedin, Thursday. A young man employed in Mr. J. J. Ifarlow's upholstery department, Princes street, caused a sensation this afternoon liy firing three shots at a traincar passing the premises. The police were at once sent for, and Sergeant Kidd took the man to the station. He appears to have had a delusive belief that the people on the cars insulted him, and he h:id been carrying a revolver on his person. No damage 'was done, the bullets going widfc.
It is understood that the young man will be sent to a mental hospital.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 268, 11 April 1914, Page 5
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106YOUNG MAN RUNS AMOK. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 268, 11 April 1914, Page 5
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