A MAD HUNTER TURNED MURDERM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10127, 9 May 1896, Page 2 (Supplement)

A MAD HUNTER TURNED MURDERM.

KILLED TWO MEN AND SHOT TWELVE OTHERS, .

BROOKVtiiMC, Out., March 0.-Urual Lapointe, a mad hunter* walked through the main street of Brookvlllo, a town 125 miles west of Montreal, to-day at noon, firing right and loft with a double-barrelled breechloading shotgun. Before he was shot down by enraged oi tans ho had killed two prominent tnon and wounded twelve others, seven of them seriously. Tho dead are Chief of Polios Charles Rose and Pebor Mnore. The murderer lives about eight miles from Brookvlllo, and 13 known nil through the county as a famous shot. His sanity has often boon questioned, and to-day, after a long and hard drinking bout, ho was suddenly overcome by homicidal mania of the most violent character. Ho appeared in Perth-street at an hour when it was crowded with men and women on thoir way to lunch from the shops and factories. Lapoiiita yelled, liko the maniac he was, but although pedestrians gave him a wide berth, no one =wpooted thai he was capable of murder. They found out too late that ho was mad.

Petor Moore, an aged gardener, walked across Perth-street about ten feet In front of the hunter. The easy mark attracted Lapointo. Without warning he swung his gun into position and fired the right barrel. Moore's head was almost blown from bis shoulders.

The madman steppod ovor the body and continued on his way down Perth-street, yelling hideously as he reloaded the gun. Chief of Police Rose ran, out of police headquarters at the sound of the shot, an '. hearing ories of " Murder 1" from frightened citizens who fled into shops and houses, ran toward Lapointe, calling upon him to evrender.

The hunter replied with two charges of bird-shot, both of which strnok the Chief in the breast. Rose fell with a cry of agony, As he lay on the walk Lapointe calmly reloaded the gun, and, seeing that many persons were watching him from neighbouring windows, he menaced them with the weapon. They disappeared, and then he turned to the wounded man, and, taking deliberate aim, fired charge after charge into his body, although Rose did nob move, and was probably killed at the first discharge. Then he reloaded as before, and. stepping over the body of bis second victim, walked into the middle of the street and opened fire upon tho windowsfirst on one side and then on tho other.

Constable Lindley ran toward the madman with a revolver in his hand. He fired hurriedly and missed. Lapointe, with a yell of derision, "dropped" the constable with a charge of shot which struck him in the head and neck.

A man who stood near the constable picked up his revolver, and, dodging into a house near by, opened fire upon Lapointe from the windows. The first shot took effect, wounding Lapointe slightly, but be fired in turn and shattered tho window at which the man had been standing. Shots began to fly from other windows and doorways Lapointe was wounded again. He did not step firing, bub simply kept turning toward window after window, and pouring shot into one after another as fast as ho could load.

At last ho was seriously wounded by a well-directed rifle ball, and fell, dropping his gun. Ho was then overpowered and locked in police headquarters. He was shot in rive places, but will recover. Twelve men were shot by the crazed hunter, two of whom died at once. The constable cannot live,