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RAN AMOK AND SHOT TWO PEOPLE DEAD FRENCH CROWD’S VENGEANCE PARIS, Monday. An Italian who had previously been confined in a mental hospital ran amok at Saint-Louis-du-Rhone. He rushed into the police station and shot a policeman dead. He then returned to the street, where he killed a sergeant of the Foreign Legion and wounded seven other people. A member of the Republican Guard pursued the man in a motor-car. He fired and wounded the Italian, but before he could arrest him the crowd had seized the man and lynched him.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 837, 4 December 1929, Page 9
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93ITALIAN LYNCHED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 837, 4 December 1929, Page 9
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