SENSATIONAL MURDER.
PRIEST SHOOTS ANOTHER. QUARREL AT DINNER TABLE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.8 p.m.) NEW YORK. April 13. A sensational murder is reported from Kalamazoo, Michigan. While at the dinner table, Father Charles Dillon, assistant rector of the local Roman Catholic Church, shot and killed Father Henry O'Neill, rector of the institution. Father Dillon explained that he had been driven to fury by ill-treatment from Father O'Neill for a long time, and to-day armed himself in expectation of a quarrel, which materialised. When the two men met, Father O'Neill asked Father Dillon , to pack up and get out. Father Dillon responded by firing upon his superior. Members of the congregation declare that Father Dillon suffered from a nervous breakdown recently.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18374, 14 April 1923, Page 9
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