DEMENTED WOMAN
LOS ANGELES TRAGEDY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LOS ANGELES, April 29. (Received April 30, at 9 a.m.) Annoyed by a woman next door mowing a lawn, Mrs Ella Thompson fired at her. Then when the police arrived she shot a policeman dead, firing through a glass door, saying that they had no warrant Mrs Thompson then engaged thirty police in a revolver battle for two hours till they smoked her out with tear gas bombs. She emerged firing right and left, and then finally fell dead to an officer’s bullet.
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Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 13
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91DEMENTED WOMAN Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 13
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