A MADMAN AT BAY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2319, 21 May 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

A MADMAN AT BAY.

GOTENBORG, the second largest town in Sweden, has been passing through a strange experience. It seems that on (lie 15th inst. a policeman was requested by somo of the occupants of a house let out in flats to help them to get to their rooms, as a Mr Wottorlind, occupying apartments in the house, had barricaded the stairs. The policeman asked Mr Wetterlind to come down and go to a doctor's, but the only reply was a shot. Assistance was obtained, and the aid of the military called in, with the result that two men were shot and several wounded. On the 22nd Wetterlind was still in possession of the house. He is armed with' four rifles and three revolvers, and is believed to have a largo supply of gunpowder and dynamite, with which he threatens to blow up tho town should any further attempt bo made to capture him. A large crowd of somo twenty thousand people have been drawn to the place and ' the heights overlooking the town. The Lord-Lieutenant and the chief of the police are there night and day, but seem afraid to make any attempt to capture hiin, eivdently expecting to starve him out. The inhabitants are in a state of terror, and it is reported in the papers that the King is very angry at the apathy shown by the authorities.