Krader. had a narrow escape from death asthe bandit who was later shot dead attempted to fre on the police officer at point-blank range, the pistol fortunately jamming, Det Sgt, Krader, CDC, 101 and a police driver were returning from fu investigation of a fraud charge at 441 Sinza Road about 5:30 when the alarm was raised that there were armed robbers in the district.
'The driver of the police car saw a man run out of Lane 421, Sinza Road, and' make a dash towards Myburgh Road, In spite of the heavy tate and the poor visibility offered by the driving rain, the river never lost sight of his quarry and as the man turned into burgh Road the car came abreast of him, Det,-Sgt, Krader, from the ear, ordered the man to halt, but hie failed to obey and ran towards Lane 600 Myburgh Road, reaching tute the pocket of his gown as he did. so, C.D, 161 jumped from the car and took up the chase, followed closely by Det-Sgt. Krad the armed robber reached the " of Lane red round foreign only About three ya rds away at the time, and purled the trig was with the detective last night, however, for the would-be killer's ed. Skt. Krader reached weapon but before he could draw 'C.D. 101. pulled out his weapon and fired five shots at the in rapid succession. Four of shots entered the man's body and went wild. He died almost, in-Hantly, collapsing at Sgt. Krader's feet With the body of the dead robber fu their police car the detective-sergeant and his party drove back to Sinza Police Station, At the station search party was formed under the leadership. of Detective-Inspector Darvill and they scoured the view fof the robbery, arresting one of the robbers, recovering some of the Stolen property, and pulling in a Tuimber' of suspects.
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