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A SENSATIONAL FIGHT

GENDARMES AND THIEVES.

(By, Electric Telegraph.-~Gi>pyright.> ' (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) Received Last Night, 8.10 o'clock.! ; PARIS, .Maach 28. During a fight between four - watch- , men and some thieves who were plundering a goods truck at'Les Aubraig, near Orleans, at 'midnight on Friday, one watchman was fatally shot, another wounded in the leg. The thieves decamped in a motor car and motor lorry- along a road running parallel with the railway; linep Meanwhile, in rosponse, a phone message, an engine with 6sk left Orleans, chased the thieves, and on ovef'ta&xng the vefai* cles a running figh£,'ensued/.i <Thp engine outdistanced the vehicles, and the gendarmes got off at. .A^Uay,j where 1 they, barricaded, the' rha'd a#d awaited the . thieves' arrival. The motor car and lorry stopped befrjuffe tney reached' the ' barricade, and the thieves dismounted, arid ran. The gendarmes pursued them, killing orie and capturing the driver of the. lony. -Next, day' ,the , traced' two of the thieves to.a neighbouringvillage, where after a fight'in a restaurant, one thief was killed, and the other wounded -and captured. * . * ' * 'i

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Wairarapa Age, 30 March 1920, Page 5

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177

A SENSATIONAL FIGHT Wairarapa Age, 30 March 1920, Page 5

A SENSATIONAL FIGHT Wairarapa Age, 30 March 1920, Page 5

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