A MILITARY TRAGEDY.
Noncommissioned Officer
Plans his own Death
(Received To-day. at 9.7 a.m.}
Berlin, Last Night
A'sergt.-major, at the barracks at Bremen (on the River Weser), after having undergone military punishment, ordered his men to load with blank cartridge. He surreptitiously substituted ball-cartridge, and when the men were practising he directed them to fire at his heart as a target, and so met his death.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LV, Issue 8600, 6 November 1906, Page 5
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66A MILITARY TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LV, Issue 8600, 6 November 1906, Page 5
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