LAW OFFICERS BAFFLED.
CHILDREN AS A SHIELD.
Times-Sydney Sun Special Cable.
New York, January 19A man named Edward Beardsley, a farmer, of Moraysville, has defied arrest for three days on a, charge of shooting the local postmaster. Beardsley has locked himself in his house with his wife and nine children surrounding him as a living shield. A sheriff's posse is camped round the house, but the sheriff confesses that he is helpless. If he storms the house, the children will be hit, and if he continues the siege the children will,starve.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15513, 21 January 1914, Page 9
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91LAW OFFICERS BAFFLED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15513, 21 January 1914, Page 9
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