RAID BY BANDITS.
TOWN fiELT» ; .;UP, ;. . .TWO.'MEN. KILLED. BATTLE' IN A CEMETERY.-r\ressAssociation-,BT.Teleg!;aph-Copyrighl • Received 10.5 p.ui . July 24th, . •.. : NEW YORK, July 24. Thre? armed strangers, reported to be Italians,' -entered a-drinking ■ saloon at Jaronica Plain, near "Boston,"'shot one man deat! and wounded two other men. '; They thee, rifled : the cash register. ; ; One of the robbers'wa« arrested, the other two decamped. ~■-,. "' ■N.ext evening i-hfe I'-wo 'bandits re-entered the town intending (o rescue their comrade.- -The crowd tried to-t.capture the bandits, who shot indiscriminately.' killing one man and. wounding severaL other stins, including three of the police' and a; woman .Willi a baby hr h'er arms. The bandits hid iii a cemetery, and 500 police surrounded it: They were instructed to sight. The bandits fought; desperately; one was'killed, and - the other dangerously wounded and; then captured.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13655, 25 July 1908, Page 5
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133RAID BY BANDITS. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13655, 25 July 1908, Page 5
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