YOUTH SHOT DEAD
OFFICER’S TRAGIC ERROR..
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.-
(Recd. Sept. 10, B‘a.m.) DELHI,' September 9. A tragic affair occurred early this morning on the Bombay exupress.
Donald Clark, the eighteen years’ old son of the sub-editor of the “Civil and Military Gazette,” Lahore, was joining the train, after partaking of refreshments. He jumped into the wrong carriage. Lieut. Sheehan, who was in a sleeping compartment, woke and shot Clark dead, thinking he was an intruder. /
It is recalled that Sheehan was with Lieut. Hext, when the latter was stabbed to death; and Sheehanr was wounded, /while sleeping in a train, by,alleged terrorists, on July 23. Sheehan has been detained.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 September 1931, Page 5
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