MAYOR SHOOTS EDITOR DEAD.
THEN COMMITS SUICIDE BESIDE OWN COFFIN. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) '(Received April 2, 12.50 p.m.) VANCOUVER, April 1. The town of Yazo City, with a population of 5000, in the State of Mississippi, was the scene of a curious tragedy when the mayor, Mr Strickland, killed Frank Birdsall, editor of the local paper. Birdsall had been campaigning against Strickland’s administration. The mayor, becoming furiously drunk, invaded the newspaper office and fired three shots into the editor’s body. He then went to his son’s undertaking parlours, where, standing alongside the coffin he had previously picked, he committed suicide.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19035, 2 April 1930, Page 9
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