Desperate Affray.
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NEW YORK, November 21. A desperate affray has taken place in one of the smaller citv hotels.
A man and a woman, who were supposed to be. implicated in some big diamond robberies, took refuge in a room there, and when three detectives and two civilians went to arrest them they opened fire on the intruders with revolvers.
The whole five went down before the rapid fire of the automatic guns, and it is thought that four of them are fatally injured. The two assailants afterwards committed suicide.
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Waikato Times, Issue 12446, 2 December 1912, Page 7
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