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Show BANDIT HOLDS TOWN AT BAY Shoots Chief of Police Dead; Subdued By Stream of Water. HKL8INGFORS. Finland, March :. Tho pursuit of tho bundlts who last Monday night entered tho Russian State bank here., killed tho Kuardliui and MCiired JJ7.S00 resulted yesterday yes-terday In another hlchly dramatic Inoldent nnd cost four moro lives at TainmerHforH. where two of the fucltlve.i were, cornered. One of the handlln irot po;iesslon of tho town hall and hold It for hour, but finally wa subdued by a stream of water directed by the firemen. Whllo Commlnaarv of Polico Dalushln waa oxamlnlntr tho two captive, ono of them grabbed a revolver from the belt of th Chief of Polico and with It killed Halushln. Tho bandld then daMied upstairs, where ho barricaded barri-caded hlmaolf In a room commanding the MaiM. lobby and tho ntreot outxlitc. Then ho deileil the polio for three hours, niranwhlo hftrranirulnc from the windows a crowd of Ihouxands of prrsonn. mnny of whom were In sympathy with h! ccclallntlc speeches. Seals Doom of Policemen. The policemen who tried to pick off thr desperado from a house oppoilto were killed by the bandit, who was on oxcellout marksman. marks-man. Aftpr all other rcwurces had been ex-htiusled. ex-htiusled. tho firemen wero called nnd poured a flood of water Into tho window. Simultaneously, Simul-taneously, a picked bond of polico and firemen fire-men ntormed the stairs. One of tho assailing was klllod and nine were wounded b'foro tho bandld. who fought despcrate-Iy with a bis knife, could bo ovorpowored. The robber, who Is a Dorpat blacksmith, boasted of membership In the Baltic rovo-luurtriflxTcoinmlttoe rovo-luurtriflxTcoinmlttoe and said the robberv of the Russian State bank waa committed to swell tho revolutionary war fund. Six thousand thou-sand dollars of tho booty was recaptured. Tho population of Ilelslngfors Is Kreatly excited ex-cited and In vlow ot tho possibility of further crimes by the Baltic revolutionists everybody Is purchnslnc revolvers. |