INDIAN RUNS AMUCK.
'.' '' ,0— . •' , ' TWO'MEN KILLED. CB.X .IELEOKAI'n.—PRESS .ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, May 21. - JTho steamer Ranada, from Fiji, brought further news, of the shooting of several people'by a mad Indian at Navua. He was "employed on a plantation by tho Colonial Sugar Company, and/suddenly became . impressed l with a 'desire to plunder. He armed himself with a gun, and attacked and shot at Mrs. Swann, who was alono in her house. Mrs. Swann was only-slightly injured. The Indian then sallied forth, snooting right' and loft, but, being" too much under tho influence of liquor,. his aim was by no means straight. ■ < Ho, however, shot fatally Air. ' Spender, overseer employed on. the plantation, shot one Indian dead, and seriously injured another Several Europeans had narrow escapes.. The madman was pursued by tho police, andavas, oventually shot dead.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 205, 23 May 1908, Page 13
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135INDIAN RUNS AMUCK. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 205, 23 May 1908, Page 13
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