A RUSSIAN BANDIT HUNT.
Four bandits, who killed two policemen and a stoker at Warsaw on June 8, and afterwards escaped, were stopped on Sunday, June 15, at a station on the Vistula railway by two policemen, who asked them for their passports. The bandits at once drew Browning pistols and killed both policemen and wounded another man- They took the policemen's revolvers and once more escaped. The authorities at once organised a hunt for the bandits on a grand scale. One of the bandits was killed, and a second committed suicide on Tuesday, after wounding l a policeman. The two remaining bandits were soon after fonnd hidden in a road-keeper's hnt in the village of Undy, in the Lomya Government Policemen and troops surrounded the hut, firing volleys, to which the bandits replied, bat In the aXternoon their lire ceased. The policemen entered the hut and found both bandits killed.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 183, 2 August 1913, Page 17
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151A RUSSIAN BANDIT HUNT. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 183, 2 August 1913, Page 17
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