MURDERER ROUNDED UP.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4019, 8 June 1920, Page 1

MURDERER ROUNDED UP.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Aust.-N.Z. Cable Association.) London, June 6. Private Toplis, who murdered a chauffeur at Andover on April 24', and escaped in the chauffeur's rear, was lounded'up and shot in a Cumberland village, yesterdarj after a six-weeks hue and cry, during which Toplis made several attempts to hold tip motorists. He also shot a policeman and a-farmer in the Banffshire Highlands. A •'Cumberland i>oliceman challenged Toplis, who whipped out a revolver and menaced the policeman, and escaped temporarily. A party of police collected and surrounded him. 'loplis made a last stand, firing until !he was shot dead. .