WILDER THAN WILD WEST.
Detective Sergeant Thomas Cooper, quick on the draw and of deadly aim, failed to "stick 'em up" in answer to a bandit quartet's commands in Chicago, but when the smoke cleared away one robber lay dead, two were wounded, one mortally, while the fourth had fled. The shooting took place in a restaurant where the sergeant had stopped for lunch. While he was hanging up his hat and coat, the four men entered the place, one of them seized Miss Blanche Wilson, proprietor, by the throat. As she screamed, Sergeant Cooper wheeled around, drawing his pistol. The bandit leader dropped to the floor at the first shot. Two others, unarmed, attempted to rush the policeman, but they, too, fell. The fourth man ran. About this time, Fred Kern, a customer, entered and a bullet, intended for the fleeing robber, passed through his coat. The dead leader was believed to be Charles Green, 26. Edward Smith, 23, with four shots in his body, died later at a hospital. Jack Gold, 30, was shot once.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 75, 29 March 1928, Page 9
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177WILDER THAN WILD WEST. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 75, 29 March 1928, Page 9
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