Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1912 — German Apache Plans Fail [ARTICLE]

German Apache Plans Fail

German Police Quickly Kill Three Terrorists When They Attempt to Escape. , Berlin—German stoicism as far as officialdom is concerned put a quick end to what threatened to be the transfer of French apache methods to this city. As a result, three robbers are dead, while there were no casualties among the law and order forces. Shortly after midnight a shopkeeper reported to a policeman on duty in the suburbs that three robbers were looting stores in the vicinity and threatening all who opposed them with death. The robbers, he said, were armed to the teeth with automatic pistols and were plainly desperate characters. The policeman hurried to a nearby railway station, and deputizing the station master and his assistants as aides

started in pursuit. When they came in sight of the trio, who were trying to make off heavily laden with booty, an exchange of shots followed. One of the robbers dropped dead with a bullet through his head. The others threw away their loot and fled, closely pursued. One of the band was slightly wounded in the leg, and, this interfering with his movements, he tried to commit suicide. He only wounded himself, and his companion stopped long enough to send a bullet crashing through his brain before continuing his own flight. ; For a time it seemed that the third man would escape, but he was finally cornered ip a patch of woods and shot to death by the policeman, who then calmly reported to the station the “necessity of killing three robbers who had resisted arrest.”