European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes g Bill offers catastrophic Cap for champs patients Page 2 d tigers take Over first place in Al East sports Page 17 g the Art of pinching italian style stripes Magazine massacre in England vol. 46, no. 125 Friday. August 21, 1907 d 6693 a gunman kills t 4 Hungerford England a a heavily armed camouflage Clad gun enthusiast shot and killed 14 people wednesday including his Mother the took his own life when police sur rounded him inside a school authorities  shooting rampage in which 16 people also were wounded was the wont massacre in modern British Crim Inal  Ryan randomly shot and killed most of his victims As he walked Down the main Street of this quiet country town of 8,000 people about 60 Miles West of London police said. Witnesses said the 25-year-old for Mer army paratrooper wearing a head band Ana Khaki clothes calmly fired in All directions with at least two weapons one a soviet designed Kalashnikov As Sault  was blasting away at everything that moved said witness Jim Hardy. Children and shoppers led scream ing As Ryan opened fire on hunger Ford s Busy main Street. He targeted police and ambulance Drivers As they rushed to Aid victims who Lay wounded or dying to was several hours before All the wounded could be hospitalized. Cars stood on streets with shattered windows some of them with Drivers dead at the wheel. Smoke billowed from a burning House the gunman s Home and police marksmen in Bullet proof vests poured into Hungerford he was right there in front of me. He Kepi tiring All Over the place. He was crazy said Amanda Grace 14. The alarm was raised around noon when two distressed children were found wandering in a nearby Forest where their Mother was found  later appeared downtown where the other 13 victims All adults were All a Ponio a Blanket ravers victim of the Hungerford England Runman who killed 14 people. Shot within minutes of Rich other. One of the dead was a pol iceman. Colin Smith chief Constable of thames Valley police said the Bloodbath ended at an empty school where police had sur rounded Ryan at mid afternoon. Four hours later and after negotiations to try to gel Ryan to surrender police heard a single muffled shot and went in Side to and him dead in a chair i pistol in his hand. No note was found. Police never fired a shot. Smith said. The chief Constable who had negotiated with the gunman described Ryan s behaviour As  he said the gunman gave no explanation for the killings. It is a Complete mystery Laid Lalu Ric fray a thames Valley police inspector. We genuinely do not know Why he did  the 16 wounded were treated at Prin Cess Margaret Hospital in Swindon. And two were in intensive care police said Early thursday. A police spokeswoman said they could provide no details of injuries. Ryan an unemployed Bachelor was described by neighbors As a loner who belonged to a gun club and shot at  English Competition regarded As the world s top shooting event. He bought and sold antique and Modem weapons to finance his own gun col Lection. Ryan s Home backed on to the Home of Trevor Wainwri Tohl a 35-year-old police officer whose father was killed and Mother injured when Ryan pumped bul lets into their car As they drove up to their son s House. He described Ryan As a very quiet Chap 1 know he s never been involved in any  police said Ryan s murderous Day a see gunman on Page 24 Hess left suicide note Berlin a former nazi Deputy fuehrer Rudolf Hess wrote a suicide note before wrapping an electrical Cord around his neck and strangling himself in Spandau prison an Allied official said wednesday. Earlier Hess son and lawyer said they doubted the 93-year-old War criminal had killed himself. Hess was pronounced dead monday afternoon at the British military Hospital in West Berlin. While some Laboratory tests Are still to be completed the primary cause of death has been deter mined to be asphyxiation British diplomatic spokes Man Anderson w. Purdon said in a statement after an autopsy. The note which was found on the body the contents of which have been released to the family clearly implies thai Hess planned to take his own  Purdon s statement said. Purdon is the official spokesman on Hess matters for the four world War ii allies the United Stales Britain France and inc soviet Union which had been guarding Hess. In Washington slate department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley confirmed that Hacsi left a Noli clearly indicating that he intended to take his Awn  Purdon said a British doctor had earned out the autopsy on Hess in the presence of medical personnel represent ing the three other former allies. He said Hess body would be flown on a British military aircraft thursday to Grafe Wuehr. I military ruining area Aboul 30 Miles South of Wun Siedel i Remote bavarian Village and the site of i he ii Eis family cemetery plot. I will then be handed Over to the family. The arrange men is will be supervised by representative of the four Powers Purdon said. The mayor of the Small town in northeastern Havar a Karl Walter said Hess would be buried at the plot. He said he was worried that Llic burial May attract annual gatherings Olna i Lyntha triers after a guard found him Wii i the electrical curd around his neck. Hess was rushed to the Hospital about a mile from Spandau. When he arrived Al the Lin spinal. Measures were taken to revive him Purdon said. He said he did not know Hen enact medical condition at the Lime he ruched the Hospital. Hess seem nearly Ai ears behind bars and it i repented the crimes that brought him a life sentence at lie Nuernberg our mrm s Inal he was Cani Rcd when he parachuted into Scotland in a self proclaimed peace Mission and was Spandau s sole prisoner for 21 Jeari. Before i Urdsin released the aul Upsy results Hess son. Munich architect Wuu Kui Dif tit Hess said he doubled his i Mhor killed himself. I cannot imagine my father would in such a thing now based on my knowledge of ins personality he said