TUTOR SHOT DEAD.

Wairarapa Age, 5 June 1930, Page 5

TUTOR SHOT DEAD.

TRAGEDY AT KING’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. ASSAILANT COMMITS SUICIDE. DETECTIVE WOUNDED. .Z* United Press Association—By Eleetris Telegraph.—Cony-right.. LONDON, June 3. Returning after a week’s absence, D. M. Potts, a student at - King’s College, Cambridge, with a revolver wounded a detective in the shoulder and leg and then shot dead his tutor, Dr. A. F. Wollaston. He then turned the revolver on himself, dying subsequently in hospital. The detective is expected to recover. Wollaston was interviewing Potts in the presence of the detective, when the tragedy was enacted. It is understood that Potts was being interrogated regarding his absence without leave. (The lite Dr. Wollaston was born in 1875, and was educated at Clifton College and King’s College, Cambridge, and at the London Hospital. He was a member of the British Expeditions to Mount Ruwenzori, 1905-11, and 1912-13. He was awarded the Gill Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, of which he was a fellow. He we.s a surgeon in tho Royal Navy during tho war, being mentioned in dispatches and winning the D.'S.C. Ho was medical officer and naturalist with, the 1921 Mount Everest Expedition. At .he time of his death he was. a fellow and tutor of King’s College, Cambridge.) DETECTIVE DEAD. (Received Wednesday, 10.55 p.m.) LONDON, June 4. In connection frith the Cambridge shooting, Detective Willis has died.