AUSTRALIAN NEWS
A LUNATIC SHOT DEAD ATTACK ON CONSTABLE MELBOURNE, June 7. (Received June 8, at 0.5 a.m.i A lunatic was shot dead by a constable at Whittlesea, 40 miles from Melbourne, after he had knocked the constable down and threatened to shoot him. The constable was called by a storekeeper, who. thought the man was about to break in. When the constable accosted him the man said, “ Stand back or I’ll shoot.” The constable fired two shots into 'the ground as a warning. The man then rushed the constable, knocking him down. He was rushing him again when the constable fired two shots in the air. One of the bullets hit the man, who died shortly after. It was not known till after his death that the man was a mental patient who had been given leave from an asylum for a motor outing with his relatives yesterday. He escaped from his relatives and apparently wandered about all night.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23829, 8 June 1939, Page 11
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