HIGHWAYMEN TRAPPED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 210, 24 January 1913, Page 2

HIGHWAYMEN TRAPPED.

FIGHT WITH DARING ROBBERS. [ BATTLE IN NEW YORK STREET. I New York, January 20. I Detectives yesterday had an exciting I pTieoun ter with some highway men on whose tracks they had been trying to get for some time, and for whom they at last specially laid a trap. It was arranged that a bank messenger. carrying a satchel, should be sent along a. thoroughfare that was known to be freijuented by the daring criminals whom the police were anxious to secure. Followed by a squad of detectives disguised as laborers, the messenger left the Union Exchange National Bunk with a bag in his hand containing CSO dollars. ' As he made his way along the street the old man, in order to piay into the hands of the ruffians by whom he expected to he assailed, stepped into a darkened doorway. He had hardly done so when he was set upon by' two men, one of whom. "Black Jack," knocked him senseless, and, grabbing the bag, made off. The fellow, however, win "pursued, and captured after an exciting chase.

Til the meantime the detectives had been having a sort of pitched battle with the other highwayman, the bullets from their revolvers peppering the adjacent houses in the liveliest fashion. The robber was eventually hit. and wounded so seriously that he may die. Oik; of the detectives also received a bullet wound, and is not expected to lire. The messenger, it was nfterv.aids found, had been badly knocked about, and was taken lo (he hospital, suffering from what is believed to be :x fractured skull.