SHOT BY A DEAD MAN.
SWISS GENDARME'S FATE.
("Tim*»" sn4 "Sjcicey Sun" Services.) BERNE, June 7. Poasa'its found tho body of a, man who had committed safcide lying on a forest path near A Browning revolver was clutchea in his lifeless hand, with his fingers still on the trigger. A gendarme-, sent by tho authorities to examine the corpse, touched this hand. Tho revolver discharged and shot the gendarme in tho stomach, killing him.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14980, 9 June 1914, Page 7
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