LUNATIC SHOT DEAD
AFTER VIOLENT ATTACK ON CONSTABLE. EPISODE IN VICTORIAN TOWN. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright MELBOURNE. June 7. A lunatic was shot dead by a constable in Whittlesea, 40 miles from Melbourne, after he had knocked the constable down and threatened tc shoot him The constable was called by a storekeeper, who thought the man was about to break in. When the constable accosted him the man said “Stand back or 111 shoot.” The constable fired two shots into the ground as a warning, and the man then rushed the constable, knocking him down. He was rushing him again when the constable fired two shots in the air. One of the bullets hit the man, who died shortly after. Il was not known till after his death that the man was a mental patient who had been given leave from an asylum for a motor outing with relatives yesterday. He escaped from his relatives and apparently wandered about all night.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1939, Page 7
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