BOMBS AND REVOLVERS.
ATTACK BY STUDENTS. AMAZING SCENE AT COLLEGE. . v BY CABLE—press association—copyright WARSAW, May 7. An amazing tragedy was enacted in the examination room of a. college at Vilna, where a youth who failed in a previous examination produced a revolver and fired at the principal. . Other students seized the assailant. One youth, in trying to shield the principal, was killed. The assailant then threw a hand grenade, the explosion killing himself and another, V and wounding ten. Before the panic had subsided a second youth threw a bomb, afterwards firing a revolver at the professors and killing one of them. The youth then committed suicide. The principal was severely wounded.. It 4 is believed the attack was due to revenge on account of the principal’s alleged severity.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 May 1925, Page 5
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