DANCE GIRL VICTIMS.
INDIAN "BLUEBEARD" GANG,
CALCUTTA, June 20. The bodies of two moro victims of the gang known as the "Bhiebeards of I Hyderabad," which has been operating for more than two years, have been discovered there. Victims of the gang include dozens of dancing girls and their young men attendants. The girls, it is reported, were lured to secluded houses and robbed and throttled, their bodies being buried in the compounds (enclosures). Three suspects have been arrested. Believed to bo a dangerous revolutionary, who had been allotted the task of killing Europeans en masse, a young Bengali was arrested by the Calcutta police at Eden Gardens. The crime is said to have been planned to take place on Calcutta football ground, where Europeans assemble daily to see League matches. Extraordinary precautions had been taken during the past three weeks in consequence of information that a deliberate attempt was to be made, and hundreds of police, detectives and intelligence branch men daily mingled with the crowd on the Calcutta ground, with the object of preventing a crime. The tension has been removed with the arrest of' this Bengali.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 7
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189DANCE GIRL VICTIMS. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 7
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