Tragic Affair at a School.

Hastings Standard, Issue 44, 17 June 1896, Page 4

Tragic Affair at a School.

♦ Ail extraordinary affair is reported from Leighton Buzzard. A number of boys attending the collegiate school atthat place ha-l a-v;emMed in the school-yard. when Mr W'niuaker, th:• headmaster, was start'i.-d by the report of a revolver. In company with the assist:>ait n. i e.-r lie hurr;--d into the yard and w is iiiimfu-d t i ii.-.d a boy named Collins, ;ig, d 1:-!, the son < t a fanner, lying oh the ground with hlood ilowing fr • n a wound in his head, while near by - » 1 a 1> >y named I'cr.eti, with a smoking r-vo!vel. in his hand. Collins was niiL'onseion*. and on the arrival of a tlx-tor i - was discovered that the revolver shoi had passed ihr-»'fg:i his fa/- -, with the result th.it seven i- • :'u w.to blown oat. his np-vr iip torn away, ami his j:rv seriously injured. It is stated that Powell was exhibiting the revolver f 'i' sale. In a joking way he pointed it to several of the hoys and • ••-•nf'rellv he turned it to the boy Co: i ins anJ pulled the trigger, when Collins ull to the ground unconscious. The injured lad lies in a critical condition,