MADMAN’S OUTBREAK
FIRE OPENED ON MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AT MEMORIAL SERVICE IN NEW YORK KILLED IN WILD BATTLE By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. NEW YORK, August 14. Thousands of people listening to a broadcast of the Police Memorial Service in Central Park today were startled to hear shots and screams. When the programme was broken off, a voice shouted into the microphone: “My God, get an ambulance quick.” It transpired that Charles Sanfillipi, infuriated by two summonses for traffic offences, had armed himself with two shotguns, filled his pockets with cartridges and opened fire during the reading of the list of honoured police dead. He wounded three policemen and three civilians before being killed by volleys from police revolvers. It was discovered that he was wearing metal plates on breast and back. Hundreds were endangered during the wild battle, which lasted eight minutes. Writhing on the ground, the dying man muttered: “I intended firing until I had killed as many police as I could; and I did; I did.” The wounded include Lieutenant James McDonnell, New York’s most decorated policeman.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1938, Page 5
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