Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-10-11 | Page 36 | Choose Death in Face of Capture

CHOOSE DEATH IN FACE OF CAPTURE Members of Gang Commit Suicide in Cave; Wife of Leader Is Slain. Special Cable to The Tribune. JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 10. Even the war has not been able to distract attention at-tention from the melodramatic career of fc the motor bandit gang, which has re- h suited in the death of ten persons. General Gen-eral Delarey, the famous Boer, was shot j bv mistake in the course of the pur- suit. Finally the band took refuge in a i cave. They were besieged there. The police, after several days, moved the public back from the mouth of the j cave, cautiousiy took away a barricade of j stones they had erected and shouted j f through a megaphone a message calling j e, upon the men to surrender. jj Eventually communication with Foster. ; one of the gang, was established, from : which it appeared all three bandits were j inside. Foster at last agreed to sur- ; p render if his wife was allowed to enter j tj and take out their arms. i He gave an address at Germiston. to ft which the police motored and where they found the woman and her baby. The:' brought them to the cave through an a perture made in the stone barricade. The majority of the police remained a hundred yards away, only a few picked men remaining to prevent a surprise, j Tine hundred thousand spectators lined t The fencing the police had erected some distance off to keep the public away. Mrs. Foster went into the cave with her baby, but subsequently brought it out. 1 handed it to her mother, and returned i inside. After dreadful suspense shots w-re heard. The police, went in and discovered the whole party dead. Mrs. Foster lay underneath. un-derneath. Upon her body was that of her husband and on top of the pile was Maxim, a notoriously good revolver shot, who had apparently shot the others before be-fore shotting hfm.elf. The body of Mezar, a voung Roer. the i third member of the gang, was Ivins i stiff and mid near the entrance. Appar- i ently he had attempted to give him!' i up earlier in the sUee and had heen shot by the other bandits when going to the ' barricade. " j Foster's father and sd.Mfr. who had Wn I in the rave before the final tr;jg-.-lv had 1 been h Mowed to return unharmed. A huge crowd witnessed the removal of tl." I four bodies. ' i I