Ran Amok.
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) STOCKHOLM, May 18. A man, Nordlung, who was released after serving a sentence for incendiarism, armed with revolvers and a dagger, ran amok on the steamer Prinskarl, on the voyage from Westmansland to Stockholm. Nordlung killed seven, including the captain, and injured five. Several of the passengers are victims. Nordlung escaped in a boat, but was captured ashore. (Received 8.35 a.m.) Nordlung desperately attacked the detectives. He confessed that he deliberately planned to avenge himself on mankind. He died insane.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 4054, 19 May 1900, Page 3
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