FIGHT WITH THIEVES
■ 4* - SEVERAL FATALITIES. Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright, Australian and N.2. Cable Association. _ . PARIS, March 28. During the fight between four watchmen and some thieves who were pjundering goods in a truck at Les Aubrais (near Orleans) at midnight on Friday one watchman was fatally shot and another wounded in one leg. The thieves decamped in a motor car and a motor lorry along the road running parallel with the railway line. ■ Meanwhile, in response to a .telephone message, an engine with six gendarmes left Orleans and chased the tmevea. A running fight ensued. The engine out-distanced the vehicles, and the gendarmes gdt off at Artenary, where rney barricaded the road and awaited the thieves arrival. The motor car and lorry stopped before they reached the barricade and the thieves dismounted and ran. The gendarmes pursued them, kill in fr one and capturing the driver of the Tom'. Next day the gendarmes traced two of the thieves to a neighboring village where, after a fight in a restaurant, one thief was killed and the other wounded and captured.
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Evening Star, Issue 17314, 30 March 1920, Page 4
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180FIGHT WITH THIEVES Evening Star, Issue 17314, 30 March 1920, Page 4
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