BERSERK GUNMAN KILLS TWO IN TRINIDAD OFFICE
(11 a.m.)
NEW YORK, June 4
A report from Port of Spain, Trinidad, says that an unemployed Trinidadian ran amok in the British West Indian Airways office here yesterday, killing two persons and wounding two others before taking his own life. He was Twaltmente Franco, aged 44. who had been calling at the airways office since January looking for work.
He returned there yesterday with a shotgun. Ho shot and killed Maria Stevenson aged 24, a stenographer as she ducked for cover behind the desk. Then he killed Frank Doy, assistant British Trade Commissioner in Trinidad as Mr. Doy ran to aid Miss Stevenson.
Franco shot and wounded Shaffie I-losein and Ken McKenzie, two airways employees when thev came into the' office' to see what the shooting was about. Franco then shot himself fatally through the head.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23271, 5 June 1950, Page 5
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