BANDITS’ RUTHLESS WAY
RAID ON A MONEYLENDER MAN AND WIFE MURDERED EFFORT TO BURN OTHERS OUTRAGE IN THE PUNJAB By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 8.30 p.m. . Delhi, Jan. 29. A dastardly outtagh by armed bandits is reported from Ramkahman, a village in the Lahore district of the Punjab. Armpd with rifles and spears, twelve bandits raided a moneylender’s house at night and killed the man and his wife, removing jewellery to the value of several hundred pounds. The raiders then surrounded the house, in which there were three women and a man, relatives of the moneylender, placed hay round it and fired the building. An alarm was given by villagers, but the bandits escaped.
The message does not disclose the fate bf the occupants of the building.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1931, Page 7
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