POLICE BURN WANTED NEGRO OUT OF HOME
NEW YORK, August 19 (Rec. 9 a.m.). —A crowd of 8000 watched as the police set fire to a Negro’s home in Chicago last night and killed him with sub-machine-gun fire as he fled from the burning building. Earlier, the Negro, Ernest Craig, aged 28, accidently wounded a two-year-old child when he shot wildly at a neighbour during a dispute. Barricading himself in his home, Craig fought a three-hour gun-battle with 270 police before they set fire to the building. Five policemen and three women were wounded and three other policemen and a press photographer were overcome by tear-gas with which the police first tried to force Craig from the building. Finally a sub-machine-gun blast riddled Craig with bullets as he attempted to escape through a window.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 August 1949, Page 5
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