WOMAN SCORNED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 65, 17 March 1934, Page 4 (Supplement)

WOMAN SCORNED.

THRILLING MAN HUNT. After two days' hide and sock with an army of police aided by aeroplanes and searchlights, two German gunmen who terrorised the district around Basle, where they murdered two bank cashiers iu a hold-up, died dramatically when their capture was imminent. The men, Kurt Sandveg and Walter Velte, walked into a bank in the crowded part of Basle in broad daylight and held up the staff. Two cashiers were shot dead before the gunmen got away with their booty. They might never have fallen into the hands of the police, dead or alive, but for the intervention of a woman scorned. One of tiie bandits insulted one of the two women, and she immediately decided to get her revenge by betraying the pair to the police. The men made their escape just as the police arrived, and sought a hiding place in the forest country around Basic. Eventually the woman who had vowed vengeance ended the man hunt. One of the men had communicated with her, asking for food, and she agreed to take a basket to the place they indicated in the famous Saint Margaret's Park at Jiaslc. The police, advised by the woman, closed in on the park, but just as they were creeping in. revolver shots rang out, and when the officers arrived at the spot the men were dead. Sandveg had lirst killed Velte, and then shot, himself with the last bullet remaining in the revolver they had used in the bank hold-up and the battle with the police.