In the meantime the foreig warier, who had recovered from his dazed condition, ran more than the length of the corridor to a. Sikh officer, who was armed, and took his pistol from him, returning to the scene at once. The convict, wha tried to rally his comrades, flourish. were armed, began firing at the men who were outside the gate. The other ran for his pistol. This battle continued for about 20 minutes, the watchmen hiding in the shrubbery on either side of the gate. Bullets spattered on the walls or were stopped by the grave mound outside the entrance, which the gang had used for cover.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.