U.S. GANG CRIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 64, 17 March 1930, Page 7

U.S. GANG CRIME.

DESPERATE BANDITS. Two Policemen Killed and Four Wounded. LAW WINS STERN CHASE. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, March. 13. Three desperate bandits at Eades, Colorado, killed' two policemen and wounded four others, after a raid upon the State Bank of Manter, Kansas, where they stole £1000. A sheriff, Hickman, was killed when the posse attempted to stop the bandits' motor car, which was speeding through the town to the western mountain passes. The robbers then tried to double back into Kansas by a circuitous route. Another sheriff, William Cole, and three officers attempted to stop them when they were crossing the highway at Cheyenne Wells, but the bandits killed Cole, wounded »two of his men, captured their car and headed eastward. Eventually the three men were surrounded and surrendered to machine-gun fire after having led the police a hard chase through three States for 27 hours. All were escaped prisoners previously convicted for murder. The police will demand the death penalty for their latest murders. REIGN OF TERROR. Gang of Desperadoes Caught in Germany. LED BY AGED WOMAN. BERLIN, March 16. After six months of terrorism in the Ha mm district of Westphalia, where 160 robberies with violence have occurred, the police have captured a gang of desperadoes. They were led by a woman aged 60, with her two sons as deputy leaders, one of whom hanged himself in his cell after his arrest.