POLICEMEN RUN AMOK.
SENSATION IN AMERICA. THREE PEOPLE KILLED. (Received 8.25 p.m.) Sun. NEW YORK, July 20. A sensation was cansed at Omaha, when two policemen, Cormach and Davis, ran amok with firearms. The two men, who were on special duty searching for illicit liquor stills, raided a still which they had discovered. As a result of testing the liquor, they embarked upon a wild career of shooting among the boarding houses in the vicinity. They d.d not cease shooting until their ammunition was exhausted. Two men and a woman were killed and five other people were wounded, three of them seriously. Davis is expected to die as the result of wound?; received while he was beinjg: subdued.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19386, 22 July 1926, Page 9
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