DESPERATE CRIMINAL
AT LARGE IN A WOOD.
\ POLICE SURROUND THE SPOT. ' Press Association—-Copyright, Australian and! N.Z Cable Assn. (Received 9.10 a.m.) LONDOiN, February 3. The Times’ Berlin correspondent states that a resident police detachment of the Reichswehr has formed a cordon round a wood at Coburg, in which an armed criminal named Hein has taken refuge. Hein is suspected of robberies and is wanted for alleged murder. A police sergeant who jumped off his bicycle and attempted to arrest him was shot through th e head, and Hein then rode off on the machine. A second police officer overtook Hein who took ambush in a ditch exchanging a fusilade until his ammunition was exhausted. Hein, who thought to he wounded, escaped and later he and an accomplice raidthe post office at Ohligs at Christmas and shot two officials. The accomplice, Harm, was arrested. Hein afterwards shot two policemen who were trying to arrest him, one fatally.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 82, 4 February 1928, Page 5
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