LIKE MOVIE DRAMA
Battle Between Bank Bandits
And Police.
ONE KILLED, TWO WOUNDED,
(Received 9.30 a.m.) SHAKOPEE (Minnesota), Dec. 10.
This. quiet village was the scene of the repulse of a bank robbery that worked out with the precision of a movie drama. The chief of police - got the "tip" that bank robbers proposed to pay a : visit.' He hid riflemen in a blacksmith's shop with a machine-gun, commanding the whole situation from a second storey window opposite the bank. The battle came at the scheduled hour. The tellers handed the bandits £300 and then the gun fight commenced. More than 100 shots were fired. Bud Mclnerney, a "bad inan" from St. Paul, and leader of the bandits, was killed, while two of his companions were wounded. A unique feature was that the village- butcher, without advance information of the robbery, dashed from the shop with a rifle, brought down one robber and was receiving all the glory from the machine-gun squad when the battle ended.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 293, 11 December 1929, Page 7
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