After wounding a provost "sergeant, holding men of his own regiid finally having to steel-waistcoated alice, Pte, Thomas Rowe Colison Glover on the morning of April 25 shot himself in the Y.M.C.A. hut at. of Kinochow Road camp and died soon
The affair created a sensation in military. citelen, and. during the four that Pte, Glover was at bay there was great excite: Head Camp. Several people. tied in the vicinity of Kiaochow
calm im down after he. had Wounded the sergeant but without The origin of the affair is be-Yieved to be the nursing of some fancied and unsuspected grievance: and its outcome was sensations The inquest was commenced by HIM, Coroner in the afternoon, Pte, Glover was a young soldier,
in Shanghai over a 26 of age, and had been ally in' the Ist Bh. The East Lancashire Regiment, he was one of those ferred to the 2nd Battalion when it came here to believe the Ist Battalion, that on receipt. of a telephone cal Detective Sergeant G. Fawke said he went to the Kiaochow Road Camp with PS. Leman. He entered the! YMCA." Hut and saw. the de sitting near the piano. wil Webley revolver in "his hand. The Intter told them, to keep back or he would: shoot." The detective-Sergeant left the" hut, and after Phoning to the inspector in. charge Gf the station, returned with Defective-Sergeant W. Smith and a party to the hut. They tried to distract the deceased's attention by conversation, but failed, as Glover Shot himself while they' were stil 10 feet away.
Detective-Sergeant Smith, whose evidence was similar, added' that in the course of the conversation they had "with him while they" were gradually creeping closer he said: this "is. nothing to. do with "you It is purely a. military' matter: Then he said: "Stop!" If you take another step' forward, I'll shoot The party stopped, and he lowered his atm! They" ok another" step forward" and he turned and shot usself in the right temple.
Detective-Sergeant "M. " Leman said that' that onthe morning' in Recently he has been doing escort after 0 tel duty on Royal Army Service Corps lorries, and in this capacity ha: They told drawn' a revolver and six rounds on the stage in the YMCA. Hat of ammunition before leaving with a evolver, and_éhat "he had Kinochow Road camp to go to the Fired, two shots," one of which had] lorry' park. 'On this day he carried the provost sergeant. "The de procedure, went to the geant entered the hut, camp, and was allotted to And. saw the deceased, who. said! it you come any nearer, I'l shoot," when he was required and' put the gun to his own head, to go out on the lorry, Pte. Glover He! tetumed "othe roadway, and was missing. A search around the on the arrival of Detective Sergeant RASE camp failed to find him, Smith, went. back tothe hut Te and a report wns telephoned to then ave similar evidence to that Kinochow Rond camp, where the of Detective-Sergeant Smith Togimental provost sergeant, Spt.
Captain lacy, Bennett, commenced a search for mand "of the man, Pte. Glover, it is said, had February the deceased been notified to attend at his comtranaferted from the Ist, Battal any office because of some alleged He was in "A" Ca, and had always minor offence, but, seemed quite been' a" very: good foldier. For' the
led him to the Y.M.C.A. hut, which provost. t's search past month he. had been "doing Sccort "duty to the anotor" lorries find was therefore given a Webley stands on' Kinochow Road a few evolver. and ammunition, which Fe Pan vray from the camp. "Here found Glover.
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"Glover, secing Sgt Bennett ap. fat morning he had been due to proach and realising that he was The man being sought drew appear "before, his commanding two trivial. charges, but revolver and fired at the se ant. {nad not" done So. Inquivies "were wounding him in the right made and it was found: that After the shot had been fired. Set. deceased had drawn a revolver Bennett reeled back, and was had one on encore duty. An order another "soldier, whom Glover did not fire. was Shen ade out for his area ance-Corporal W. 'Hargreaves, he YMCA, manager, _realis-said that om instructions "from the ing the' inood Glover ' was in provost-sergeant 'Sergeant "Bennet, and finding that Glover had no and found that the deceased hat hud. telephoned the Ash' Cam antipathy to him, tried to sooth him. but" with little effect. "A few one out on escort duty. He later minutes later troops. summoned Saw Sergeant Bennett and told from the camp surrounded the hut him. Soon after another private ata distance, and this spurred came in and told him that Private Glover into fiting two more shots Glover was in the Y.M.C.A, through the wooden walls of the Mltness, went there and' save army-type hut, one bullet smashing sitting in the middle of the stage 4 clock. with a revolver in his hand. "Ser-Glover had no chance of escaping tittle by attempting to from the hut, and the troops had Fant Bennett and Lance-Corporal fearon then entered the Hut. and started walking down the side of arrest him and becoming the hut, one on each sid for hig bullets, so. they waited.
Glover called out somethin to Than it was decided to" ask. the Sergeant Bennett, and the ter raid the Shanghai sistance of a properly equipped hesitated and then went forward again. Glover took aim and fred nda call was Tow. "Sergeant Bennett stumbled Gordon Road station, forward, and witness saw he had Police and. detectives, equipped wound in his left hand. Lance-with bullet-proof waistcoats and Corporal Heaton helped the wound-shields, arrived at 11 am, and ed man iz office, entered the hut. They walked uy While the witness went back t9 the ocht and approached quite close Barracks and reported the matter Glover as he sat on the platform at the end, and tried to talk said that he found that the deceased Coroner, giving his verdict Vim: into surrendering. They almost thought they had succeeded, died "at Shanghai on April £6, when suddenly he placed the gan 1935, a8 the result. oft bullet against, his head and fired.
Wound "self-inflicted whilst "tem He did not die immediately, but wae in such a critical condition that it was not possible to move him until 1230. p.m, when he was
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