WILD SHOOTING IN PARIS
ONE PERSON KILLED AND THREE WOUNDED. (Rec. February 4, 8.5 p.m.) , London, February 4. Thle “Daily Telegraph’s” Paris correspondent says tragic of the laxity of the law regarding the sale of fire-arms continues. Alice de Lort, a dressmaker, who two years ago was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for firing a revolver in a street, fired five shots in the Boulevard de Madeleine during the busiest shopping hour's on Saturday night. Three people fell seriously wounded. The police with difficulty saved the woman from being lynched. She said she was surrounded with enemies, and so decided to kill the lot. None of thh wounded had ever seen De Lort before. One has two bullets in the stomach, the second a bullet in the liver, and the third a bullet in the ■ chest. In another district a bottle merchant shot and killed a neighbour under the delusion that the neighbours wene stealing his safe. Three loaded’ guns and a revolver were found in the man’s rooms when tile police entered, using sliields.— Aus.-N-Z. Cable Assu. .
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 113, 5 February 1924, Page 7
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