MURDER AND SUICIDE.
WORK OF RELIGIOUS MANIAS.
I By Electric Telegraph—Coraucni l i United Press Association.) London, October 8. A young Socialist "uamed Willian Mac-Donald visited the respective houses in Liverpool and shot dead Paul Gaze and Miss Mary Cumptqn. He aisg wounded a youth named Rob ert's, and then committed suicide. Hi motive is unknown. . . (Received 10.5 a.m.) It is believed that MaoDbnald i< a religious maniac. All the victims belonged to the new Church of Humanity. Miss Cromp ton instructed the others in its tenets MacDonald was armed with a revolver. .razor, and bludgeon. % He visitec. Roberts' lodgings and felled him oi answering the door. Roberts too; refuge in a bedroom. MacDonald lire. hut missed, and then fled. ■ Later, he visited Ga/,e, who was r. v cently married, and accompanied him to a. sitting room, where ho shot hie.
in the temple. He then went to Miss (iompton'; residence, and shot her also in the temple. MacPonchi committed suicide, dying
at Miss Crompton's side. Roberts' conditions is not serious
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 33, 9 October 1913, Page 5
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