GUTRAGES BY BRIGANDS
A band of Brigands in the neighbourhood of Smyrna has lately been giving an immense amount of trouble. The band is under the leadership of a notorious brigand, by name Araboglou, who has committed many acts of atrocicy, and appears to be one of those persons who stick at nothing.” The ether day he carefully prepared an ambuscade near tbe town of Nazili for the chief of the Smyrna police, Tehiplak Mustapha Agha, who was hotly pursuing him with a company of gendanr.es. At the first volley of the concealed brigands* the commander, his sergeant, four soldiers and the guide fell, pierced with bullets. The rest of the gendarmes took to their heels. Araboglou then emerged from his place of concealment, and finding that Tehiplak Mustapha was not quite dead, finished him with a stroke of his yataghan . tie then cut off one of his ears, which he carried away, together with the rifle and revolver of his victim. On the occurrence being repotted at Aid in, Major Sulieman Agha, the chief of the gendarmerie of the district, started with a strong force in search of the brigands, who, by latest accounts, had been seen at a distance, bat displayed great dLiucllnotion to place themselves within gunshot.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1037, 30 November 1882, Page 3
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210GUTRAGES BY BRIGANDS Temuka Leader, Issue 1037, 30 November 1882, Page 3
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