AMERICAN ITEMS.
HELD UP 11V I!AXI)ITS. TWO MEN SHOT DEAD. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). Received thij day at 8.50 a.m.) OTTAWA, March 10. A telegram from Winnipeg states that John Chalfey, a Canndian-I’aeiiic Railway agent at Waleh, a remote station, was awakened early by the breaking of glass. lie opened the window in his bedroom above the station and a voice demanded, “ Come down and open the safe.” Three bandits then besieged Chalfey who locked himself upstairs and telegraphed to the nearest station which sent a locomotive with several armed men. On arrival they found nothing, and thinking the bandits had escaped they separated and searched. Two shots were heard and two officers were found dead. A big posse was then organised, hut the bandits had escaped in the storm.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1925, Page 3
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129AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1925, Page 3
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