ONE MAN SIEGE
ATTACK BY 270 POLICE Negro Shot to Deatli (N.Z.P.A.—Copyright) i (Rec. 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug 19. A crowd of 8000 watched as the police set fire to a negro’s home in Chicago last night, and killed him with sub-machine-gun fire as he lied from the burning building. Earlier the negro, Ernest Craig, aged 28, accidentally wounded a two-year-old child when he shot wildly at a neighbour during a dispute. Barricading himself in his home, Craig fought a three-hour gun battle with 270 police before they set fire to the building. Five policemen and three women were wounded and three other policemen and a press photographer were overcome by tear-gas, with which the police first tried to force Craig from the building. Finally a sub-machine-gun blast riddled Craig with bullets as he attempted to escape through a window.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 264, 20 August 1949, Page 5
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