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Show Battle Fought With Bandits Ban-dits in the City of Montreal Monlrofll, Que.. March 2. Surprised in tho art of dynamiting tho West Montreal branch of tho Royal banlc heie this morning, a hand of flvo bandits engaged in a battle with the police in which one robber was killed and Charles Fitzpatrick, son of the local chief of police, was badly wounded. After two of the robbers wero captured, cap-tured, another battlo occurred in the outskirts of the city and the others arc being closely pursuod. No coin was takeni from tho bank. The attempted robbery was the most daring in the history of Canada. I-ate last night a Canadian Pacific railway watchman saw tho men loitering loit-ering around tho station and traced thorn without being noticed. Early he saw them crawling through a window win-dow of the bank, the protecting bars having been sawed through. Ho notified no-tified the police and a posse surrounded sur-rounded the building. The bandits wero called upon to surrender Sud-denly Sud-denly there was a terrific dynamite explosion and tho bank was completely complete-ly wrecked. In tho confusion, tho robbers got away but wero cornered latter In a shack on the outskirts of tho city. The chief of police and his son, In tho faco of a heavy revolver firo. entered en-tered tho building and engaged in a duel with the men. One robber was killed outright. A bullet that hit a heavy table in the center of the room glanced off and scriouBly wounded the chief's son. The remaining four robbers broke for cover and lator were again sur-ounded, sur-ounded, two of them falling unde tho fire of tho police. Nothing ihnt would identify the dead bandit was found on his body, although sentiment showed itself when a photograph of a pretty girl, a wedding ring wrapped in tissue pa-per pa-per and a loclc of a woman's hair wero discovered. The pursuit Is being continued to-dav to-dav southwest of Montreal. Tho four, burglars who got away probably owe their escape to the fact that, they were equipped with snow-shoes snow-shoes and fhelr pursuers were hindered hinder-ed by the deep snow. After following tho trail across the country for several miles, a party of town vigilance committeemen com-mitteemen abaudoned the chase. The deffd man has not been Identified. His pockets contalnod nothing besides thirty photographs, tho photograph of a girl and a small mirror. oo |