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Show LABORERS TURN HIGHWAYMEN. Two Italians Attempt to Steal Payroll Pay-roll With Disastrous Results. London. Five persons are dead and more than twenty others are in hospitals at Walthamstown, a suburb, as the result of a sensational attempt at-tempt made Saturday by two Italians at highway robbery. The Italians were run down and sorruunded by a posse and finally committed suicide. Three other victims, including a policeman po-liceman and a young boy, lie dead. Two policemen and three boys are among the wounded. The Italians had been employed in a rubber factory, but having been discharged, dis-charged, they planned to revenge themselves on their employers. They lay in wait near the factory and seized a bag of money containing the week's pay of all the hands. They then started on a mad dash down the street. The police were summoned and started in pursuit in a motor car. As they approached the Italians the robbers opened fire with automatic, pistols on their pursuers. A number cf men and boys on the street were' shot down before the men were captured. |