RUSSIAN THIEVES.
DESPERATE -CRIMINALS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association:) St. Petersburg, April 23. Three thieves, holding up customers, robbed a show at St. Petersburg and decamped with a large sum. They fired revolvers at the pursuers. A policeman shot one dead., and a second was wounded fatally. The poliro found in his possession poison in the form of tabloids. The third emptied his revolver, and'when he was captured and disarmed, swallowed a tabloid and dropped dead.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12221, 24 April 1914, Page 5
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77RUSSIAN THIEVES. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12221, 24 April 1914, Page 5
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