MAN KILLED IN ROW AT DANCE.
MELBOURNE CONSTABLE DREW REVOLVER.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telesranh.—Copyright.)
(Received December 2G, 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE. December 26.
Constables Brown and M’Culloch arrested two men under the influence of liquor at a dance hall. The men resisted violently and twenty other dancers came to their assistance. The policemen were thrown to the ground and savagely kicked. Constable Brown’s baton was wrenched from him. He drew a revolver. The men again rushed him. and during the struggle the gun exploded. William Kraesst was shot dead andf another man wounded.—Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18645, 26 December 1928, Page 1
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