MINE-OWNER RUNS AMUCK
SHOOTS FOUR MEN. (Rec. November 17, 5.5 p.m.) Brisbane, November 15. Tliomas Cooloii, a well-known mineowner, secured a rille and shot dead four men—Bernard Thompson, "William Broom, Harold • Smith, and William Brown—who were working various claims on the Mount Coolon jjoldtield. Ho told another man that he intended to shoot five or six more and then himself. Coolon escaped to the bush ojhl is still at large. He was recently engaged in litigation over his mines, and it is believed that his mind was unhinged.— Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 45, 18 November 1918, Page 5
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