COLLEGE TRAGEDY.
REVOLVERS USED AND BOMBS THROWN. STUDENTS’ ATTACK ON PROFESSORS. liy Cable —l'resa Association—Copyright. Australian *uui 'N.Z. c. au Association. (Received May o, 0 .6 p.m.) WARSAW, May 7. An amazing tragedy was enacted in the examination room of a colic-go at Viina, where a. youth wiio failed in a previous examination, produced a revolver and tired the principal. Other students seized the assailant, and one youth, trying to shield the principal, was killed. Tile assailant Uien threw a hand grenade, the explosion killing himseli and anothe. student, and wounding ten others. Before the panie subsided, a second youth threw a bomb, afterwards liring a revolver at the professors, killing one of them. The student then committed suicide.
The principal was severely wounded. It is believed tho attack was due to revenge on account of the principal’s alleged severity.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 9 May 1925, Page 9
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