Stranger than Fiction.
MAN SHOT BY A CORPSE. LIFELESS FINGERS ON THE TRIGGER. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! Times and Sydney Sun Services. Berne, June 6. Peasants found the body of a man who had committed suicide lying on a forest path at Geneva with a Browning revolver clutched in his lifeless hand with the fingers still on the trigger. A gendarme sent by the authorities to examine the corpse touched this hand, and the Browning discharged and shot the gendarme in the stomach and killed him.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 39, 8 June 1914, Page 5
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85Stranger than Fiction. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 39, 8 June 1914, Page 5
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