BANDIT MURDERS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1928, Page 5

BANDIT MURDERS

TWO STARTLING CRIMES

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON, October 21

Scenes rivalling movies were enacted in Germany and Alorocco during the week-end. The first occurred at Cologne. Three desperate hank robbers defied capture. . The p'olice surrounded a house from which two suspects emerged. They Avere ordered to put up their hands, hut instead they fatally shot a. constable with a revolver anti wounded another. Reinforcements captured the pair, who were placed in a motor car from which they escaped. Though wounded they kept up a running fight and shot dead a motorist who refused to give them a lift. They took the car and eluded motors and motor cycles carrying police. A third suspect meanwhile exchanged shots from the house hut surrendered to superior forces. The other occurrence was near Casablanca, AA’hen a merchant Pomares Jubiaga, tried to out-distance four mounted Aloorisji bandits AA'hose rifle shots pierced his petrol tank and stopped Hie car, and taking the three prisoners over many moors, they coldbloodedly shot the chauffeur. They made the merchants double bank on a pony. A French official, Rossier, pursued them in an armoured ear hut the Moors deadly fire from the scrub killed Rossier. While at its height Pomares crawled to the rescuers. The Moors escaped with Jubiaga, plus their loot.