SEIGE OF ARMED MADMAN.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 71, 13 March 1914, Page 7

SEIGE OF ARMED MADMAN.

• «» "■——■ Revolver shots at the police by an armed madman about 6.30 this morning led to a chase in which pursuers and pursued kept up a running fire with their revolvers. The madman was finally captured in the light shaft of a block of flats after wounding himself severely with a long Kurdish knife (stated the Paris corresjjondent of 'The Daily Mail' on January 9). When first seen he was shouting and gesticulating outside the Elysee, the palace of the French President, and singin" songs in which M. Poincare was abused. When "moved on" by the police he fired at them and fled. At a block of flats in the Boulevard Haussmann he rang the bell, rushed in past the doorkeeper, arid hanged the door. The police searched the whole building before they found him crouching against the wall in the light shaft—a narrow well in the high building. "I will blow your brains out," he shouted as he heard the window above him open. The police fired from windows at the huddled figure, and the man returned the shots—in either case without effect. The police also emptied ,10 buckets of water on the man. Finally the officers broke down the door at the bottom of the shaft. As they sprang at the man he flung himself on the ground with the point of a knife pressed against his side. ln> his pocket* were £5 and several misspelt letters written by himself and nped in a sprawling hand. "King