IN COLD BLOOD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

IN COLD BLOOD.

BANDIT MURDERER.

kills motorist and girl

Mary Munoz, shot by a hold-up man who killed her escort because they had no money to give him, died m hospital at Oakland (U.SA.). The bullet had punctured her lung. Three blood trassfusions were made in an attempt to save her life. _ Police throughout the San Francisco Bay region were engaged in a search for the bandit, who shot and killed a man and seriously wounded his girl companion when the couple told him they had no money. The dead mail is Stanley 3dontero, 24, of San Leandro, and tha girl, Mary Mtmoz, 22. According to the girl's story to the police, the hold-up man jumped on the running board or their machine as they were driving slowly through an outlying residential street. "Stick 'em up, he said, drawing a revolver. "We have no money/' Montero is said to have told Mm. "All right, I'll kill you anyway," the bandit replied, and deliberately fired three shots at Mont-ero, one of which penetrated his heart and two entered

his back. Then he fired once at the girl, the bullet striking in her breast.

The bandit ran down the street, and the girl, half hysterical from shock and weak from loss of blood, ran six blocks to the main highway and hailed a truck driver, who took her to police headquarters. There, after telling ner story, she collapsed and was taken to the Fairmont Hospital for first aid. She was later transferred to Hospital, Oakland, wliera a Wood transfusion waa resorted to in order to save her life. The girl had been unable to tell exactly the location of the shooting and it was 3ome time before squads of police located the machine, with Montero slumped over the wheel, dead. Descriptions of the murderer, as given by Miss Munoz, were broadcast, and all roads and ferries leading from San Leandro and Oakland were watched for the criminal.