BANDITS SWEEP TOWN.
POLICE CHIEF IMPRISONED. SAFE BLOWING EXPEDITION. ROBBERS USE PISTOLS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 7. Twenty bandits swept the town of Indiana early in the morning, blasted the safes of two banks and escaped with thirteen thousand dollars into the Kentucky Hills. They drove into Spencer in automobiles, captured Captain Vaughan, chief of the police, locked him in the ; City Hall and cut the telephone wires, I While the others were using high exI plosives, they badly wrecked the bank buildings. The bandits fired upon and wounded some residents when making a dash from the town after the raid.—("Sun.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 267, 8 November 1923, Page 5
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