A. European railway police-officer was fatally stabbed in the back while tackling single-handed a gang of thieves on train in the New Province this week. The young officer was aware that thefts were continually occurring. and had determined to travel as an ordinary passenger and sift the matter for himself, Tu the middle of the night he aroused an acquaintance travelling with his wife in a second-class compartment and informed them that he was about to tackle thieves, who were in the next carriage. The next thing known, wax that the body of the unfortunate officer was flung from the train just. before it slid into dark wayside station, The friend and the station-master hurried with lanterns to the spot, to find Mr. Crable, the police-officer, already stone dead. The murderers. the meantime escaped and have not yet been discovered.
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