SHOT BY MISTAKE.
A SUPPOSED RUM-RUNNER.
HOT DEBATE ON ARMING. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 13. Following the death of the third citizen shot by a prohibition agent under a misapprehension that he was a rum-runner, the whole question of the use of firearms has been thrown into the House of Representatives, resulting in bitter debates in which various members demanded total disarmament of agents, and others hotly defended their actions. —United Service.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 204, 14 June 1929, Page 5
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