CHINESE BURGLAR’S FATE.
SHOT DEAD BY A CONSTABLE
United, Press Association —Copyright (Received March 22, 12.40 a.m.) PORT DARWIN, March 21.
A Chinese burglar entered tbe room of Diver Hughes, at the Club Hotel. Hughes attempted to capture the intruder, but the latter using a knife inflicted a slight wound on him and escaped. A constable saw him running, and fired throe shots. The dead body of the. Chinaman was found at daylight in the bush. Two of the shots had taken effect.
[Diver Hughes is presumably the brave mail who a few years ago obtained celebrity by bis rescue of an Italian from a. flooded mine in Western Australia.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2766, 22 March 1910, Page 5
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110CHINESE BURGLAR’S FATE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2766, 22 March 1910, Page 5
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