WEIRD MAN HUNT
THIEF IN SKYSCRAPER CORDON ROUND BUILDING ROBBER WOUNDS WATCHMAN New York, Jan. 26 One of the weirdest man hunts the New York police have ever undertaken is under way to-night, as 200 pa-trol-men and detectives are carefully searching every square foot of the 60-storey Wooiworth skyscraper for a thief who robbed several offices and shot and critically wounded a watchman. The police claim that within three minutes of the shooting the building was surrounded and it was impossible for the thief to escape. Therefore, a detailed search was ordered by the chier inspector, who said it would continue until nine o’clockon Monday morning, when the return of thousands of workers to their offices would make further search futile. The police are equipped with sub-machine guns and tear-gas bombs and a guard has been established to cover all possible exits.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11934, 28 January 1936, Page 3
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