NOTED ROBBER KILLED
DIES AFTER BATTLE WITH POLICE PUNJAB GANG CAPTURED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association J i Reed. 11.40 a.m. DELHI. Wednesday. After defying the police for fifteen years, Devi Das, notorious leader of an armed band of robbers, was killed at Ferozepore, in Punjab. He offered stout resistance, killing two constables and seriously wounding two others. The police trapped members of the Kang in a house and after five hours’ battle they bored a hole in a wall, made .a tire, and smoked the robbers out. When they entered they found the leader dead, having died from wounds. The others were arrested.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 730, 1 August 1929, Page 9
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