POLICE OFFICER SHOT
WOUND IN ONE ARM AIRCRAFT STRIKE SEQUEL LOS ANGELES. March 8 A district attorney, Mr. Burton Fitts, who investigated the murder of Mr. Doheny in 1929 and led the inquiry into the suicide of Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow, on November 10, 1934, ■was wounded in the left arm to-day by a shot fired by one of four men who forced his motor-car in to the kerb in s. suburban street. Mr. Fitts could not recognise any of the occupants of the other vehicle, which was driven rapidly away. He has been conferring with the Police Chief at Santa Monica in regard to the strike at the Douglas aircraft factory. He said he had received several threatening letters in the past week owing to his activity in obtaining conspiracy indictments against 300 sit-down strikers in the Douglas plant. The officer was taken to hospital, where it is said his condition is not serious.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22673, 10 March 1937, Page 14
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