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ATTEMPT TO WRECK VICTORIA BRIDGESearchlight* Spotted Man Creeping on the Jce and Guards Opened Fire, But fie Escaped- Officers Will Make No Statement Until an Investigation Is Held.Montreal. Feb. What is believed| to have been tin attempt to wreck the .Victoria Bridge was frustrated by the, men of a composite battalion on guardshortly before 5 o’clock this morning.Several shots were fired when the figure of a man was seen creeping over the Ice toward the bridge. The search 11 glits on the city side picked him out some distance from the stone piers and as it was evident he had 110right to be in such u place at such an hour the guards opened fire. In a twinkling the other guards turned out and several more shots were fired, but the man escaped.When asked about the affair the sergeant of the guard on duty at the bridge referred the enquirers to the higher official of the composite battalion, all of whom said they would make 110 statement until an investigation had been held.
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Sat, Feb 05, 1916
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