INDIAN ROBBER GANG.
ARREST AFTER BLOODSH Eb
NOTORIOUS LEADER KILLED. Australian and N.Z. 'Press Association DELHI. July Ml Devi Das, the notorious leader of an armed band of robbers, who had defied the police for 15 years, was killed at Ferozepore, in the Punjab. He offered stout resistance, and killed two constables and seriously wounded two others. The police trapped the members of the gang in a house. After a battle which lasted for five hours they bored a hole in a wall, made a fire, and smoked the robbers out. When they entered I hey found the leader dead of wounds. The other bandits were arrested
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20323, 2 August 1929, Page 13
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107INDIAN ROBBER GANG. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20323, 2 August 1929, Page 13
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