BANDITS’ FIGHT

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1928, Page 5

BANDITS’ FIGHT

FURTHER (DETAILS. (United Press. Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).' Y 1 COLOGNE, Oct. 23. Later details state tliat Heiddcrs was first recognised, by a young gardener as he was. entering a Cologne house. He gave the alarm to . his brother immediately, 'shot him in the stomach and dashed into the street.: One was carrying a suitcaso filled with ammunition. A motor car was standing outside the cafe below; but they ’v Were unable to enter it, so they entered the cafe, pointing(revolvers, and demanded the motor ear owners to unlock .the car. 1 / None moved, and meanwhile the; police appeared. The brothers rac- ': ed down the street and boarded a clearing ‘tram. Tlie elder brother drove . the tram car niadly, the younger taking coyer/ on the ; rear platform, from which. he poured a shower of bullets into the police pursuers aboard motor cars. The Heidders ;left the tramcar

whibh continued its, mad ; career; two policemen leaping into it-and pulling it up just in time to avoid a collision. In the meantime fifty armed police . continued the pursuit. The younger brother was wounded in the leg and was about to be carried off when he

snatched a. revolver like, lightning from his pocket, but a policeman, seeing his Y action shot him dead. Meanwhile the elder .bother dashed into a house. Four hundred (police then threw a cordon . abound it, using searchlights and keep- : ' ing , up's an. indiscriminate , fire all nigh!

: long. . The .police at daybreak were Torn- ■/ deep,, carrying a blazing torch in one hand arid a revolver in the other. Some entered the house hut: found it empty.

It. is reported that Heiddcr made for the open country where he robbed two old women of. a few, pence under a / threat of shooting. He then returned to Cologne. . ' The city is now in a fever of excitement, many fearing to venture into the streets until he is arrested. Seven huhdred police continues the search.

- SEARCH FOR BANDIT

COLOGNE, Oct. 24

/Johann Heidger was traced to. a /... wood : between. Co]ogn e and Dusscldorf ; where he stopped a youth and do- . marided hread. _ Strong; (bodies of po- • lice have been drafted to the district armed to the teeth, and are beating \the \Wood, ..thus far without., clue.