A SLAB AT THE STRAW
BUDAPEST, December 0. Seven highway robbers called the •' Yellow Boot Dang ” have been arrested under dramatic circumstances near Budapest. For several weeks they have been holding up wayfarers between Rakoss-zc-ntmilialy and Zuglu, presenting revolvers and stripping them of everything they had of value, even, in some eases, of their clothing. The robbers all wore bright yellow knee-boots. This morning a large force of detectives went out at dawn in motor-cars from Budapest and scoured the country. Passing a large strawstack one of them thrust his sword into the side, knowing that gipsies often hide in such stacks during the winter. A yell and an oath came from within and the detectives at once began to seek an entrance. Tearing away straw they found an opening, but a. man’s J arm,/ with revolver levelled, appeared, and a voice cried. “ Let us sleep in peace or we shoot. There are seven of us.” Firing briskly themselves the detectives rapidly widened the opening and found the seven cowardly desperadoes, wakened from a drunken sleep, in an enclosure iu the reptre made with boards. They surrendered without a struggle.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1927, Page 4
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190A SLAB AT THE STRAW Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1927, Page 4
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