MANIAC IN SCHOOL.
BEKiLINi, June 213.
The lunatic named! Schmidt who entered a fibman Catholic school yesterday fired tlhai-ty-five shots at •&■» pupils, hitting twenty-one of them" and killing three. ■He first ■entered a room containing sixty five girls and firing his pistols, killed •three giniLs and wounded ten. A! schoolmaster who was present leaped upon the man's t>aiok, but Schmidt fired, and he fell mortal* ■wounded.
Stehimidt then ream into the pi*/* ground, where he fired 'among th« 'boys and wounded five. An infuriated crowd chased an« caught the murderer, whom they ■beat into insensibility, before the police could rescue him.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14555, 24 June 1913, Page 5
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101MANIAC IN SCHOOL. Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14555, 24 June 1913, Page 5
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