ASSAULT ON OFFICER
MISTAKE OF ROBBERS.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIOH7.I
v UJBTRAUAN . NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
PARIS, 16th April. The affray at La Ferte-sous-Jouarre >vas due to three deserters arranging to fob a well-to-do passenger, in order to get money to go to .America. A sleep-, ing officer was the victim.
An unexplained attack was made by three soldiers on an officer in a train. Bursting into a compartment, they struck an officer with an iron bar, then threw him out of the train.' He was picked up dangerously injured. The police secured orje assailant/ at Pontin. The others escaped from the train.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 91, 17 April 1923, Page 7
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102ASSAULT ON OFFICER Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 91, 17 April 1923, Page 7
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