MADMAN'S MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 10

MADMAN'S MURDER.

CAS BOMBS TO SUBDUE HIM. Oh? bomb? have been used hy the French police at Or.say. mar Pari?, to capture M. Buisson. a madman, who had shot dead the village constable when the latter tried to take him. M. Buisson. who is an octogenarian and an ex-municipal councillor of Orsay. >>eoarne suddenly demented, and fired -evera! shots into the street with his sporting gun. M. Hausemnie. the v illape constable, accompanied by sevrral gendarmes, went to secure the madman. He told the gendarmes to wait outside, spying: ""I will knock at the door, and tell M. Buisson that 1 have a rc<risiored letter for him, and so he will come quietly."' Scarcely had he knocked at the door when he fell back with a fatal shot wound in the head. The madman then barricaded himself in his cottage. Inspectors of the "gas brigade" were rushed from the Paris Prefecture of Police to Orsay. Wearing their gns masks, they broke a window in the n.dolman's room and threw in a number of gas bombs. Th" madman, rendered half unconscious by the gas. was then captmred. On the madman's table was found a piece of paper on which he had written: "Do not go to any expense over my funeral."