DRUNKEN MAYOR’S CRIME.
FATALLY SHOT AN EDITOR. CHOSE HIS OWN COFFIN. THEN COMMITTED SUICIDE. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel.—Copyright (Received March 2 ; 12.50 p.m.) VANCOUVER, April 1. The town of Yazo, a city with a population of 5000 in the State of Mississippi, was the scene of a curious tragedy when Mayor Strickland killed Mr Frank Birdsall, the editor of the local paper. Birdsall had been campaigning against Strickland’s administration. The Mayor, becoming furiously drunk, invaded the newspaper’s office and fired three shots into the editor’s body. The murderer then went to his son’s underaking parlours where, standing alongside a coffin he had previously picked, he committed suicide. N
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17985, 2 April 1930, Page 5
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108DRUNKEN MAYOR’S CRIME. Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17985, 2 April 1930, Page 5
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