SHOOTING IN BANK
REVOLVER FOUND IN TREE
—Press »-ssociation.)
INVERCARGILL, December 28.
An additional detail in the story of the shooting in the Invercargill bank on December 27, which resulted in the death of Michael Fletcher, aged 19, is the finding of another of the bank's revolvers in a tree beside the building.
It is stated that it was thrown out of the building during an argument before the actual shooting. The person who threw it told the police of his action and they found the weapon in the tree
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 155, 29 December 1936, Page 8
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90SHOOTING IN BANK Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 155, 29 December 1936, Page 8
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