GUNMAN HOLDS UP HOUSE
‘WANTED FLOOR FOR MINUTE’
COOL REQUEST FROM MEMBER
REVOLVER THROWN DOWN TO HIM.
STRANGE SCENE AT WASHINGTON.
By Telegraph—-Press Assn.—Copyright. Washington, Dec. 13. A man giving the name of Martin Kemerer, from Allentown, Pennsylvania, stood up in the gallery of the House of Representatives on Tuesday and covered the floor with a revolver. With one foot over the rail he-waved the gun towards the members* Some of them headed for the cloakrooms. “I want the floor for a few minutes,” the man shouted.
He stood for a few moments waving the gun, and then Representative Melvin Maas (Republican, Minnesota) walked across the chamber directly below him and said, “Throw down that gun.” He threw the gun to Mr. Maas, who caught it The police rushed into the gallery and seized the man. The House then resumed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1932, Page 7
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