MURDER AND ROBBERY.
CABLE NEWS.
United Press Association—l!v Electric Telegraph Copyright.
DESPERATE BANDITS. A FIERCE FIGHT. Received July 24, 1u.5 p.m. NEW YORK, July 24. Three armed strangers, reported to be Italians, entered a drinking saloon at Jamaica Plain, near Boston, and shot a man dead and wounded two.
They then rifled the cash register. One was arrested, but the other two decamped. Next evening the two bandits reentered the town, intending to rescue their comrade.
A crowd tried to capture fie bandits and shot indiscriminately, killing a man and wounding several, including three of the police and a woman with a baby in her arms. The robbers hid in the cemetery and 500 police surrounded them. The police had been instructed to shoot the robbers at sight. The latter fought desperately. One was killed and the other was dangerou°ly wounded and captured.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9151, 25 July 1908, Page 5
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143MURDER AND ROBBERY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9151, 25 July 1908, Page 5
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