ELDERLY VICAR SHOT
EX-SCOIiT LEADER’S CRIME
LONDON, May 20.
The gunman who shot and badly wounded the Rev. Charles Sykes, 02-year-old vicar of St. John’s Church, Stamford Hill, N., in the church hall yesterday, and afterwards killed himself, was identified last night as Alfred Stanley Kirkby, 25-year-old former Boy Scout troop leader and churchwarden.
Kirkby, who lived at Derwent avenue, Edmonton, used a target rifle. He first fired at the 58-year-old verger, William 11. Longhurst, who told how he and a postman escaped, how the vicar was shot, and how Kirkby was found dead.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19377, 15 July 1937, Page 13
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