 Eventually, Hinne was able to kill Pitung.According to the report in the Dutch-language "Locomotief", the historical Pitung was caught in an ambush and killed by Hinne and several assistants; some Indonesian tellings indicate that Pitung's family had been arrested and tortured to draw him out.A detail found in folklore, but not present in accounts from the period, is that Hinne shot and killed Pitung with a golden bullet.