MURDER IN AMERICA.
MEN SHOT BY ARMED ROBBERS. desperate ENCOUNTER WITH POLICE. “SHOOT AT SIGHT” -INSTRUCTIONS. United Press Association. Copyright (Recoived July 24, 10.5 p.m.) NEW YORE, July * 24. Thrco anned strangers, reported to bo Italians, entered a drinking saloon at Jamaica Plain, near Boston. They shot one man dead, wounded two othors, and then rifled -tho cash register. ' . ... One man, was arrested, and tlie other two decamped. The next evening the two bandits re-entored the town, intending ho rescue their comrade. The crowd tried to .capture the bandits, who shot indiscriminately, killing one man and wounding several, '.including three -police and a woman with a baby m arms. . . '. The bandits hid in a cemetery, which was surrounded by 500 police, who were instructed to shoot at sight. Tho bandits fought desperately. Ono was killed and the other was dangerously ' wounded and was captured.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2252, 25 July 1908, Page 3
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