SHOT BY BANDIT.

Wairarapa Age, 26 August 1930, Page 5

SHOT BY BANDIT.

TWO IMMIGRATION OFFICERS ON CANADIAN TRAIN. .. .. MURDERER LATER SURROUNDED IN FARMHOUSE. PASSENGERS NOT MOLESTED. (Received Monday, 5.5 p.m.) OTTAWA, August 24. A message from Winnipeg states that two United. States immigration officers, Inspector Boulton and Inspector Jones, were shot and killed by a. bandit on a Canadian National passenger train near Emo, Ontario, early on Sunday. The bandit is named Emery Frenette, of Fort Francisont. Later he was surrounded in a farmhouse, shot and seriously wounded by the police. Frenette escaped from police officers at Fort Frances on Saturday after his arrest on a minor charge. After his capture he confessed to the slaying. He expressed his sorrow, declaring that he had lost his job and girl and was desperate and robbed the members of the train crew, but did not molest any of the passengers, many of whom were not aware of his presence. The immigration officers were asleep in a smoker. As they rose from the seat Frenette opened fire, killing them instantly. He made a.conductor follow him through five ears to the engine, where he robbed the engineer, fireman and brakeman. He then jumped from the train as it was entering Emo, where he wis surrounded in a farmhouse. Frenette resisted the’police, who set the house on fire, forcing him to emerge and then shot him. The bandit died in hospital at Emo later.