CAMBRIDGE SHOOTING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 16 June 1930, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE SHOOTING

POTTS' STRANGE CONDUCT

BIZARRE .TASTE IN CLOTHES

LONDON, 4th June.

The strange story of the life in London of I). M. Potts, the student at King's College, Cambridge, who shot dead his tutor, Dr. A. F. R. Wollaston, mortally wounded Detective Willis, and committed suicide, was given by Madge .Miller, who sheltered Potts and another young man in her Hat in Shaftesbury Avenue, where they arrived ono pouring wet night. Miss Miller said she gleaned that Potts was in some kind of financial difficulty, and was being pressed by a Russian". She persuaded him to return to Cambridge. He had an automatic revolver, wbicb lie carried in nis pocket, lull of cartridges, and he hinted that he would not be taken alive. She managed to hide the revolver several times, but he always found it again. Potts seemed to have money later, and went to theatres and cinemas several times. She could not understand a curious incident, Potts once appearing in spectacles, with his hair waved and dyed a ginger colour. . To many of his associates Potts claimed the title of Prince of Lorraine. He wore most bizarre clothes—scarlet or canary pull-over, vivid stockings, and a cap worn back to front. He invariably carried a disguise, which he used when driving round the villages. The tradesmen of Cambridge recently received a circular warning them against Potts because of his lavish and indiscriminate orders. ■ The detective's dying depositions reveal that when the shooting occurred Potts was under cross-examination in regard to six criminal offences alleged against him.