AFFRAY WITH MADMAN.
GERMAN GENDARMES SHOT. BOMBS AND GRENADES USED.A. and N.Z. BERLIN .Sept. 6. A shooting affray is reported from a village near Cassel. A former policeman, Heinrich Klauss,' in a sudden fit of madness. tried to shoot his parents. A gendarme who came to the rescue, was shot dead and nine policemen who advanced on the madman's house had to retire in the face of a fusillade of revolver shots; Reinforcements under the provincial Governor blew in the door, and Klauss withdrew to a cellar, where damp straw was lighted to drive him out. The police threw a bomb a;jd received another fusil lade of shots. The police then used hand grenades and when they entered the house they found Klauss dead in the cellar. The casualties were two person* killed and five wounded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19736, 8 September 1927, Page 11
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