THRILLING CHASE
RACE AFTER THIEVES. TWO ROBBERS SHOT. By Telesraph.—Press Assn.—-Copyright. Received March 29, 8.5 p.m. Paris, March 2S. During a fight between four watchmen and some thieves who were plundering a goods truck at Lcs Aubrais, near Orleans, at midnight on Friday, cme watchman was fatally shot and another wounded in the leg. The thieves decamped in a motor car and a motor iorry along a road running parallel with the railway line. Meanwhile, in response to a telephone message an engine with six gendarmes left Orleans and chased the thieves. Overtaking the vehicles a running fight ensued. The engine outdistanced the vehicles and the gendarmes got off at Art.onay, where they barricaded the road and awnited the thieves' arrival. The motor car and the lorry stopped before they reached the barricade, and the thieves dismounted and ran. The gendarmes pursued them, killing one and capturing the driver of the lorry. Next day the gendarmes traced two thieves to a neighbouring village, where, after a fight in a restaurant, one thief was killed, and the other wounded and captured.—Aus.-NZ. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1920, Page 5
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