Fatally Shot
By Constable’s Revolver
man suspected of theft.
ATTACKS POLICE WITH BOTTLE.
(By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.]
(Received 23, 9.55 a.m.) Sydney, Aug. 23. . While endeavouring to arrest twe men suspected of theft, *t Lithgow, a constable was compelled to draw his revolver to protect himself. After challenging one man who was making for him with an upraised bottle, he fired a bullet, which entered the man >» neck. He died some time later The police report states that the revolver exploded.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 210, 23 August 1926, Page 5
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82Fatally Shot Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 210, 23 August 1926, Page 5
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