POLICE CAPTURE BANDIT

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28249, 10 April 1957, Page 11

POLICE CAPTURE BANDIT

Reported Confession By Persian

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) KARACHI, April 8. A Pakistan border patrol has captured Ahmed Shah, who, according to the police, has confessed to the murder of an American woman in the Baluchistan area of Persia, it was officially announced today. He was captured after a gun battle with the border patrol after crossing from Persia into South Baluchistan.

The woman, Mrs Anita Carroll, wife of an American official in Persia, was killed last month with her husband and another American official.

The announcement said that Ahmed Shah was one of 18 bandits captured in a fight amid barren sandhills near the village of Kauhrchakate, about 300 miles west of Karachi.

The 18 included three wounded —two women and a young bov. One of the women was the wife of the bandit gang’s leader. Dad Shah.

She was wounded in a fight with Persian police on April 3. when the gang leader and his son, Hamal, were killed. The murders touched off an intense hunt for the bandits, who were fleeing south-east towards the Arabian sea port of Gwader, in the Trucial Oman.

Pakistani patrols waited for them in barren country, where jagged mountain ranges 5000 feet high block the route from Persia. An official statement said Ahmed Shah confessed to the murder of Mrs Carroll, who had been abducted by the bandits after the murder of her husband and another American.

He was also alleged to have admitted that the gang killed the two Americans and two Persians. He was said to have confirmed that the bandit leader, Dad Shah, was killed in the clash with Persian police.