Mr, Kirkwood heard the crack of shot and halted his car. He saw man silting on a sidewalk with shotgun in his hand.
"The shot narrowly missed my ar," Mr, Kirkwood related, "asked the man what he was doing. He did not reply. I drove to the nearest policeman and raced him back to Belgrave Square, "The man was still there, He was holding a racing bicycle on which he had ridden to the Square."
"The man was understood to have fired the gun from a point opposite No. 1 Belgrave Square, which is two doors away from the Kent residence, "The private detective of the Duchess of Kent assisted the police in the search for the bullet, which was be-Heved to have struck the wall of a house and fallen between the railings in front of the basement of the house.
"The man with the shot-gun was detained and was later described 95 0 middle-aged Englishman recently re-fumed home from Australia,
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