FIVE MEN SHOT DEAD

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 160, 19 April 1949, Page 4

FIVE MEN SHOT DEAD

Running Fight with Murderer < NEW YORK, April 17 A man in Pullman (Washington) today shot and killed three policemen and a taxi-driver before he was surrounded and riddled with bullets. He was George Mclntyre, the owner of an electrical store. '

The police said that Mclntyre was wanted for stabbing a man in a fight earlier in the day. When a policeman went to arrest him, Mclntyre drew a gun and shot him dead. He then grabbed the policeman’s baton, clubbed him over the head, and began a frenzied death prowT that lasted an hour and 40 minutes. Word of the shooting spread through the town. Terrified mothers swept their children off the streets, as McIntyre was reported to be (Shooting at anything that moved. Scores of residents armed themselves with shotguns, rifles, and pistols and joined the police in the hunt for Mclntyre. A posse converged on McIntyre’s house, but he sent a fusillade of shots into them and then made a mad dash from the house.

A running battle ensued, as McIntyre fled along railway lines and into scrub. Two more policemen and a taxi-driver (a member of the posse) fell dead as Mclntyre fought back. In desperation and exhausted,. McIntyre staggered intno a gully, where the posse surrounded him and shot him dead.