REVOLVER BATTLE.
RAID ON POST OFFICE
THREE POLICEMEN KILLED. ONE ROBBER SHOT. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received April 23, 12.30 p.m.) PARIS, April 22. Three police inspectors were killed and a raider named Mancini was wounded in a desperate revolver battle in a suburban post office at Marseilles, where the police were posted to repel an expected raid. The postmistress, who was alarmed at the appearance of four men, summoned the police, who were hiding In an adjacent room. The raiders received them with a volley, killing and fatally wounding the others. One of the inspectors, despite his wounds, interrupted Mancini. The other gunmen escaped in a stolen car.
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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18619, 23 April 1932, Page 6
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110REVOLVER BATTLE. Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18619, 23 April 1932, Page 6
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