CAMBRIDGE SHOOTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21054, 17 June 1930, Page 10

CAMBRIDGE SHOOTING

POTTS’S-STRANGE CONDUCT. . BIZARRE TASTE IN CLOTHES. . LONDON, June 4. The strange story of the life in London of D. M. -Potts, the student at King’s College, Cambridge, who shot dead- bis tutor, Dr A. F. R. Wollaston, mortally wounded Detective Willis, and committed suicide, was given by Madge Miller, who sheltered Potts and another young, man in her flat in Shaftesbury avenue, where they arrived one pouring wet night. Miss Miller said she gleaned that Potts was in some kind of financial difficulty, and wap being pressed by a Russian. She persuaded him to return to Cambridge. He had an automatic revolver, which he carried in his pocket full of cartridges, and he hinted that he would not be taken alive. She managed to hide the revolver several times, but he always found* it again. Potts seemed.to have money, later, and went to-theatres and ( kinemas several times. She could, not* understand a carious incident, Potts once appearing -in spectacles, with his hair waved and dyed a ginger colour. . To many of his associates Potts claimed the title of Prince of , Lorraine. He wore most bizarre clothes—scarlet or. canary .pullover, vivid stockings, and a cap worn back to front. He invariably carried a disguise, which he used when driving round the villages. The tradesmen of Cambridge recently received a circular warning them against Potts because of his lavish and indiscriminate orders. , The detective's dying depositions reveal that when the shooting'occurred Potts was under cross-examination in regard to six criminal offences alleged against, him-