MADMAN SHOT DEAD

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 242, 26 July 1935, Page 5

MADMAN SHOT DEAD

HACKING DOOR WITH AXE.

(United Pi-ess Association —Copyright)

NEW YORK, July 24

Burnett Ward, aged! forty-two, a resident of! the small town of Montrose, found a naked maniac with an axe hacking his front door down in the middle of the night and was compelled to kill him before the police could arrive. The madman was a former convict with a record of treatment in an asylum for the insane. He appeared before Ward’s homo at 2 o’clock in the morning, awakened Mrs "Ward with uild dies of “water, water.” She was terribly frightened 1 and screamed for help. Her husband tried to get the man to leave by telling him to go to a well nearby, and then telephoned the police. By this time the madman had found an axe and was literally battering) his way into the house. Ward grabbed a shotgun and fired one shot through the window in an effort to frighten the attacker, and was then compelled to shoot him dead just as State troopers arrived!.