DEATH BEFORE ARREST
A DRAMATIC DEFIANCE [BY CABLE—PBESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. November 24, 9 p.m.) PARIS, November 23. Determining to avoid arrest for theft a 22-years old Spaniard, Almarez, barricaded himself in a house,’ and fired a revolver at the police, who donned waistcoats and began to flood the house with' gas in which were 'also Almarez’s mistress and her four-year-old son. The latter ran out shouting “They are dead,” Almarez having, shot himself and his mistress in the son’s presence.
One constable succumbed to wounds.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 November 1930, Page 5
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