UNIVERSITY SENSATION
DENTAL MECHANIC RUNS AMOK MUftOER AND SUICIDE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, December 12. , A dental mechanic, running amok with a revolver, shot and killed the associate dean and the associate professor and wounded another associate professor of dentistry at Columbia University College of Dental Surgery. He .then turned the weapon on himself and committed suicide. . ■ The slayer, who was 50 years of age, had been discharged earlier in the day for starting a fight with another dental mechanic. The associate dean, Dr Rowe, one of the dead men, was known to be the slayer’s best friend, having had him reinstated five times after ha had been discharged' for having started fights with other mechanics during the four years in which he was employed at Ike college. ,
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Evening Star, Issue 22212, 14 December 1935, Page 14
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129UNIVERSITY SENSATION Evening Star, Issue 22212, 14 December 1935, Page 14
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