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Grisly end: An Ontario Provincial Police officer walks from the commandeered taxt in which a man killed himself yesterday with a 12-gauge shotgun after wounding two officers near Peterborough
Grisly end: An Ontario Provincial Police officer walks from the commandeered taxt in which a man killed himself yesterday with a 12-gauge shotgun after wounding two officers near Peterborough

Grisly end: An Ontario Provincial Police officer walks from the commandeered taxt in which a man killed himself yesterday with a 12-gauge shotgun after wounding two officers near Peterborough

Date5/12/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Grisly end: An Ontario Provincial Police officer walks from the commandeered taxt in which a man killed himself yesterday with a 12-gauge shotgun after wounding two officers near Peterborough.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0120741F
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