PARIS SHOOTINGS.
TOO MANY FIREARMS. (BT ASSOCIATION COSTSIGKr.) (AUSTaAfcIAIJ , AHD B.E. CABLE ABSOCIATIOH.) (Eeeeived February 4th, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, February i. The Paris correspondent. of the '' Daily Telegraph'' says that tragic illustrations of the laxity of the law, regarding the sale of firearms continue. Alice de Lort, a dressmaker, who two years ago was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for firing a revolver in the street, fired five 3hots in the Boulevard de Madeleine during tho busiest ohopping hoars -of Saturday night. Three people fell seriously wounded.
Tho police with difficulty saved the woman from being lynched. She said sho was surrounded with enemies, so decided to kill the lot. • None of tho wounded had ever seen de Lort before. One has two bullets in the stomach, a second a bullet in the liver, and the third a bullet in the chest. In another district .1 bottle merchant shot and,killed a neighbour under the delusion that neighbours were stealing his safe. Threo loaded guns and a revolver were found in the man's rooms when the police entered by means of bullet-proof shields.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17989, 5 February 1924, Page 9
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PARIS SHOOTINGS.
Press, Volume LX, Issue 17989, 5 February 1924, Page 9
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