A DEMENTED MAN
SHOOTS AT THE POLICE. : ' AND IS HIMSELF KILLED. ■Received This Morning, 12.35 o'clock. MELBOURNE, June 16. A halfcaste at Adelong named Con-q-uist was suffering from dementia. Sergeant Dcprez ivci.lt to 'take cli'au'ge of the sufferer:* who opeend the door a little and defied the police. Poking ouit a jp:a rifle, he. sihot the sergeant in the g,ro:(n. The sergeant replied witli his revolver, killing C'omquiist.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10661, 17 June 1912, Page 5
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68A DEMENTED MAN Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10661, 17 June 1912, Page 5
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