MOTOR BANDITS
VALUABLE GEMS STOLEN
RUNNING FIGHT WITH POLICE
by cable— press association— copyright. LONDON, Nov. 11. The Paris correspondent of the “Evening News” reports that -a chauffeur named Royart stole a motor car at Casablanca and drove to Tetuan, picking up en route two accomplices. The police attempted to intercept them, and a fierce battle followed, in which three of the police were shot dead and four were wounded. The desperadoes then systematically visited the jewellers’ shops in Tetuan, stole gems- worth £20,000, and escaped. Police armed with machine guns •pursued the robliers. and another fight took place on the Franoo-Moroccan border, lasting two hours, in which all •of the three bandits were seriously wounded.
The missing gems were discovered in a ea r.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 November 1927, Page 10
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