COLD MURDER
SERGEANT SHOOTS TWO BANK OFFICIALS INDIAN HIGHWAY CRIME United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 10.5 a.m. DELHI, Monday. Two British subjects, J. L. Hutchinson. aged 45 years, manager of the Peshawar Cantonments branch of the Imperial Bank of India, and J. S. Dunsmore, aged 47 years, the bank’s travelling inspector, who left Peshawar on a sightseeing trip to Khyber Pass, were murdered near Michnikdao between Peshawar and Landikhana, allegedly by an Indian sergeant attached to their escort. The two men left Peshawar at daybreak in a hired motor-car, escorted by the sergeant and two frontier levies. It is stated when near Michnikdao they left the car and walked ahead.
Suddenly the sergeant crept up and fired point-blank, killing the two men instantaneously. The frontier levies, seeing the treachery, thereupon shot and killed the sergeant.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 953, 22 April 1930, Page 9
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134COLD MURDER Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 953, 22 April 1930, Page 9
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