LUCKY ESCAPE.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER POLICE INSPECTOR. By Cab'e —Press Association—Copyright. PARIS, June 13. A Alayence message states that Police Inspector Munchy, when walking on the railway near Dortmund, was attacked and.overpowered by five men. He was then tied, to the track. His assailants declared that they wished to punish him for activities against a Westfalenreubund Nationalist organisation. They placed the victim’s waten near his head and brutally told him that he could check the time of the arrival of the train which would crush him.
Inspector Alunchy, by a tremendous struggle, managed to drag ■ himself m the middle of the line so that the express passed over him without injuring him. German workmen at daybreak found him unconscious.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 16 June 1924, Page 9
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