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DRAMA IN COURT

ATTORNEY SHOOTS RIVAL JUDGE ALSO FIRED AT (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) CHICAGO, January 13. (Received Jan. 14, at 8.30 p.m.) Infuriated by an adverse ruling from the Bench, Join? Keogh, a veteran practising attorney, calmly drew a revolver in court to-day and killed a rival attorney, Christopher Kinney. Keogh then fired three times at the presiding judge, narrowly missing him. At the burst of gunfire the courtroom was thrown into the wildest confusion, and the spectators and attendants dropped to the floor, while the judge dropped behind the Bench and crawled on liis hands and knees to the safety of his chambers.

When arrested Keogh said he was not sorry for his action, and he hoped it would create enough publicity to prove his point, which involved real estate mortgage litigation. “1 did it as a soldier, not as a murderer,” he said.

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22779, 15 January 1936, Page 7

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DRAMA IN COURT Otago Daily Times, Issue 22779, 15 January 1936, Page 7

DRAMA IN COURT Otago Daily Times, Issue 22779, 15 January 1936, Page 7