WOMAN AND BANDITS.
PARIS, . May 1.
Peasants armed with scythes and billhooks, and gendarmes on horse and foot, are searching the wobds round Blosi for . bandits who Bare just killed a farmer • and were beaten away in a daring at- j tack on the. Chateau de Serigny by the | bravery of a woman. [ The only person in the chateau when > the bandits entered was Mme. Girault, J who was in the kitchen chopping woo'd. One of the bandits'sprang at her, but she managed to push him away, and then struck at him with her hatohet, He tried to secure tlie weapon but received a terrible gash in the face. A second bandit then came to tlie help of his comrade, but one the keepers at the chateau arrived on the scene with a shot gun, and the two bandits made off into the wood. A hue and cry was at once raised. It was found that the same afternoon the bandits had stopped a farmer driving home through the woods and cut his throat and robbed him.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1920, Page 1
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177WOMAN AND BANDITS. Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1920, Page 1
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