SHOT BY POLICE
NOTORIOUS GANGSTER
HOLLYWOOD BANK ROBBERY
NEW YORK, 4th April,
A Hollywood message states that Joseph Luby, 27 years of age, a gangster, who was wanted in Detroit for a doublo murder, was himself' shot following a running fight with police through Hollywood suburbs to-day. Operating alone, ho left a motor-car in front of a bank with tho engine running and slipped inside. He held up the teller and snatched £200 and then dashed out, but luck was against him, for he almost fell into the arms of a policeman. . Struggling free, he leaped into the car and speeded along the crowded Hollywood Boulevard.
The police cornered him in a vacant lot. "All right, I surrender," he called, but when the officers approached he started firing. ' The first shot by a policeman killed him, and his fingerprints half an hour later completed his identification.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 81, 5 April 1930, Page 9
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146SHOT BY POLICE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 81, 5 April 1930, Page 9
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