BANDIT HUNT

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 63, 24 October 1928, Page 5

BANDIT HUNT

UNEQUALLED) SCENES.

ESCAPE FROM POLICE

OFFICERS KILLED AND WOUNDED.

ONE ROBBER SHOT.

HUNT WITH BLOODHOUNDS

(Received tO.t a.m.) COLOGNE, October 23. Scenes unequalled in the annals of chime were associated with the hunt of five bandits suspected of a bank hold up at Gia-.'bach. The first round up was on Saturday when a house In was beseiged and three arrested. The two brothers Heidder in ad© a thrilling escape after fatally shooting a- constable and a motorist in whose car they escaped. A long running fight taking place till the bandits succeeded in eluding the fleet of pursuing cars.

SEEN AGAIN ON MONDAY.

' They were not 'seen again till yesterday, when they tried to escape on a motor cycle and again shot two policemen keeping up a running me in the alleyways., Th© bandits then boarded a tram car and cleared out the crew ant; passengers at the point of revolver. The fugitives went at full speed in the tram as far as the Rhine bank where they alighted, with the police in fast cars hot on their heels. The fight was resumed, two constables being shot dead and several civilians wounded before one bandit was mortally wounded in the head and died going to hospital. The other bandit scaled the gardlen wall of a country house which was surrounded by the police. Searchlights were played on it and blood-* bounds and torch bearers searched for six hours fruitlessly. The siege however is continuing.^—Australian Press Association.