INDIAN AMOK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 217, 13 September 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

INDIAN AMOK.

ENGLISHWOMAN SHOT.

An Indian constable who ran amok at Lokma-Chau police station, on the Kow-loon-Kwangtung frontier, shot dead Mrs. Madgwick, wife of the sergeant-in-charge. He mortally wounded a fellow-Indian before engaging in a machine-gun battle with a force of 50 European sergeants until he was shot dead.

The madman first got possession of a rifle from the armoury; then, forcing his way into Mrs. Madgwick's room, he shot her down. He next shot an Indian who was on guard at the entrance to the station. Four other Indian police fled out of the building.

Mr. Madgwick, the sergeant-in-cliarge, on returning from patrol duty, was met with a hail of bullets from a machine-gun. Reinforcements, including European sergeants led by Captain-Superintendent Wolfe, were rushed to the scene from Hongkong. They quickly surrounded the police station, which is well fortified with barbed wire.

For two hours they returned the mad constable's fire. Finally the stream of bullets from the madman's fort ceased. The attackers then carried out a charge, breaking down the front door. They found the Indian'dead, with a bullet in his head behind his machine-gun and piles of ammunition.