DESPERATE ROBBERS DEFEATED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9060, 8 April 1908, Page 3

DESPERATE ROBBERS DEFEATED.

GIRL'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE ON A LONELY FARM. A young girl has iust had a terrible experience at a lonely farmhouse on the estate of Count Karolyi, near Buda-Pest. Late in the evening a man, apparently almost exhausted by carrying a heavy sack, knocked at the door of the farm and begged for a night's shelter. The only occupant of the place at the time was the farmer's young daughter. She naturally refused to admit him, but at his earnest entreaty allowed him to leave the sack. The stranger, depositing his burden in the kitchen, then left, and the girl continued her preparations for an evening meal. A noise caused her to look round, and, to her horror, she saw that the sack was moving. Then the blade ! of a knife appeared, slowly cutting through the sacking. Thoroughly terrified, she picked up her father's gun and fired. The movement stopped at once, and blood commenced to ooze through the sacking. The girl, now almost mad with alarm, fled from the house. As she tore down the road she fortunately met her father, and he,\ having obtained the assistance of two gendarmes, hurried home. The gendarmes speedily cut opened the sack, and inside found the dead body of a burly man, armed with a revolver and a knife, with a gunshot wound in the head, which had evidently caused death. Suspended from his neck was a whi&tle, and, believing it was intended as a means of summoning accomplices, the police blew a series of, calls. Almost immediately three men ran up, and seeing themselves trapped opened fire with revolvers. A desperate fight followed, the gendarmes using their revolvers freely. One of the robbers was shot dead, and his two companions were captured.