POLICEMAN'S BLUNDER.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4944, 18 September 1914, Page 5

POLICEMAN'S BLUNDER.

CHASING DESPERADOES. Electric Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. Capetown, Last Night. In connection with the shooting of General Delarey, through not heeding a policeman’s challenge, Generals Delarey and Beyers were returning in the evening from Delarey’s farm. The police were seeking a gang ot desperadoes who were using a similai motor car. The police had previously killed a doctor and wounded his wife and sister in similai' circumstances. Three gangs had been operating in the Rand. They had raided the bank last week and shot dead a man who had discovered them. Uiey dynamited a safe on Sunday last and killed two police; then they escaped on a motor-cycle. Armed police organised a hunt, and surprisea their hiding place. The bandits killed a detective and escap'd with a wo"man and child, fusillading the residents. BANDITS SURROUNDED. Capetown, Last Night. Generals Botha and Smuts are taking steps to counteract a misapprehension in the minds of a section ot the Dutch population that there is some connection between General Beyers’ resignation and General Delarey’s death. The Government accepted the resignation with regret a few hours before. They do not intend to appoint a successor at present. The police have since surrounded tlie bandits on Reef kopje.