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Show THREE KILLED IN GUN FIGHT Vancouver Chief of Police, Small Boy and a Negro I Lose Lives. DRUG ADDICT IS CAUSE Opens Fire From Window When Squad Arrives to Take Him. VANCOUVER, B. C, March 21 Threo were dead here today as the result of a shotgun and pistol battle last night between the police and a man they sought to arrest. The dead. Chief of Police Malcolm B. McLen-1 McLen-1 nan. George Rolph, 9 years old. Robert Tait. negro. Tait. said to be a drug addict, opened! fire from a window on Chief MacLen? nan and a police squad as they ap-i ap-i preached a lodging house whose pro-prietor pro-prietor had telephoned Tait had as-j ; saulted him. Talt's first shot killed the j Rolph boy. The police squad rushed the house.' but was drien off, Chief MacLonnan I having fallen just inside the door. Two hours later, when the police effected ef-fected entrance. BCacLennan was found I dead, his head shattered by bullets.! The negro also was dead, whether! from the attackers' bullets or from a self-inflicted wound could not be as-j certajned. Tso policemen received wounds about the head. Tait was j armed with a shotgun and automatic ' pistol. Tait's common law wife was found in the house uninjured and taken into: I custody. She is held on a charge of murder. Both she and Tait are said ; by the police to have been crazed by I drugs at the time of the shooting. W W - |