MAN RUNS AMOK.
FIVE PERSONS WOUNDED. FORTY-ONE SHOTS FIRED. JOURNALIST ARRESTED. By Telegraph.-—Press Assn —Copyright. Received March 22, 11 p.m. Adelaide, March 22. An intoxicated man ran amok at the Riverton railway station, shooting with a. revolver a woman and four men before being overpowered by Mr. Percy Brookfield, a member of the New South Wales Assembly, who was shot twice in the stomach. A Russian journalist named Koornat Tomayeff is in custody, charged with the shooting. It appears he was travelling from Broken Hill, and when the train was stationary at Riverton, and passengers were hurrying from the breakfast refreshment room, he drew a revolver and fired promiscuously about the platform. He reloaded several times, firing forty-one shots. Mr. Brookfield secured a revolver, and, while Tomayeff was reloading, grappled with him. During the struggle Mr. Brookfield was shot, and he is not expected to recover. The other victims are: Mrs. Rice, of Broken Hill, dangerously wounded in breast; W. Cowhunst, Parraroo, and William Smith, Peterborough, shot in leg; and William George, of Nanmup, shot in thigh.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assm
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1921, Page 5
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181MAN RUNS AMOK. Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1921, Page 5
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