SHELL-SHOCKED MADMAN.
EX-SOLDIER RUNS AMOK.
TWO NEIGHBOURS SHOT
A. and NZ. LONDON. March 12. A man named Weir, a shell-shocked soldior, ran amok in a working-class district of Brighton on Sunday afternoon. A railwayman i u>d Parker, when feeding chickens, was suddenly shot in the abdomen. His sister-in-law ran to his help,, when another shot seriously wounded her. As she fell she saw their neighbour, Weir, pointing a double-barrelled gun from a window. A third shot grazed the forehead of a man looking from the window of another house. The noise attracted two men from their gaidens, and Weir cried, "Go back or I shoot." They fetched the police, who found Weir raving as the result of having taken a dose of cyanide of potassium. His aged mother in the meantime had disarmed him. She handed the police the gun, a quantity of ammunition, and a bomb. Weir had been behaving strangely of late. He was wounded in the war.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18348, 14 March 1923, Page 9
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