DILLINGER AGAIN.
£30,000 BANK ROBBERY.
WASHINGTON, May 23
"We are providing equipment for the Federal police to spread fear in the underworld," declared President Roosevelt when signing four enactments designed to frustrate the inter-State operations of gangsters.
The fugitive • bandit, Dillinger, replied next morning. With two pals, he robbed a bank at Flint, Michigan,-taking £30,000. In Dugginsville, Missouri, Walter Hartley, a bank robber, was killed by the police. He' was hiding in a farmhouse, and came to the door with a shotgun in his hand, but the police loosed a stream of bullets first.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 126, 30 May 1934, Page 7
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