Six Persons Killed
Ex=Soldier Runs Amok in a Post Office
CRAZED BY LONG ILLNESS NO KNOWLEDGE OF CRIMES (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received 11 a.m. to-day. QUEBEC, Oct. 26. J. Bilodean, an ex-sergeant, who was badly gassed in the war; crazed by a long illness, shot and killed his two aged sisters, his two nephews, a boy cousin, Inspector Octave Eiset, of the post office where he formerly worked, and wounded two others when he ran amok in the post office. He was overpowered by a policeman. The slain women were lured to some woods in an automobile. Bilodean told the police that he does not remembei what happened.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 October 1934, Page 5
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111Six Persons Killed Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 October 1934, Page 5
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