MADMAN WITH MACHINE GUN

Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 3

MADMAN WITH MACHINE GUN

FIGHT WITH HONGKONG POLICE. ■ An Indian constable “ran amok ” recently at Lok-Ma-Chuu police station, on the Kowloon-Kwangtung frontier, China, shot dead Mrs Madgwick, wife of the sergeant-in-charge, and mortally wounded a fellow Indian, and then engaged in a machine gun battle with a force of fifty European police until he was finally shot dead. The madman first got possession of a rifle by gaining entrance to the armoury, then, forcing his way into Mrs Madgwick’s room, shot her down, and shot in turn an Indian who was on guard at the entrance to the station. Fout other Indian police fled out of the building. On returning from patrol duty Mr Madgwick was met with a hail of bullets from a machine gun. Reinforcements, including fifty European police, led by Captain-super-intendent Wolfe, arrived from Hongkong. Quickly surrounding the police station, which is well fortified with barbed wire, they'returned the mad constable’s fire for two hours. Finally the Indian’s fire ceased and the attackers carried out a charge. Breaking down the front door, they found the Indian lying dead, with a bullet in bis head, behind his machine gun ami piles of ammunition.