MAN SHOOTSTHREE POLICEMEN AND A TAXI-DRIVER
NEW YORK, April 17 (Recd. 8 pm). —A man in Pullman (Washington) today shot and killed three policemen and a taxi-driver before he was surrounded and riddled with bullets. He was George Mclntyre, owner of an electrical store. The police said Mclntyre was wanted for stabbing a man in a fight earlier in the day.
When a policeman went to arrest him, Mclntyre drew a gun and shot him dead. He then grabbed the policeman’s baton, clubbed him over the head and began a frenzied death prowl that lasted 100 minutes.
Word of the shooting spread through the town and terrified mothers swept their children off the streets as Mclntyre was reported to be ing at anything that moved. Scores of residents armed themselves with shotguns, rifles and pistols and joined the police in a hunt for the killer. A posse converged on Mclntyre's house, but he sent a fusillade of shots into them and then made a mad dash from the house. A running battle followed along the railway lines, and into the scrub. Two more policemen and a taxi-driver, a member of the posse, fell dead as Mclntyre fought back in desperation. Exhausted, Mclntyre staggered into a gully where the posse surrounded him and shot him dead.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 19 April 1949, Page 5
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