"HANDS UP !" IN CHICAGO.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2203, 11 July 1910, Page 7

"HANDS UP !" IN CHICAGO.

The American newspapers report a daring 1 raid on a Chicago bank, which owing to a motor breakdown at a critical moment, had a tragic ending. A well-dressed, respectable-looking man called upon a firm of jobmasters and hired a powerful automobile, which he himself drove away. He made straight to the branch office of a bank, and, entering the office with a pointed revolver, coolly ordered the staff to hold up their hands while he helped himself to all the coin and paper money he could take from the counter tills. Then, still menacing the paralysed stall with the revolve!’., he rushed out of the bank, jumped up into the automobile, and set off at a great pace, which he speedily increased as the clerks and other employees ran out after him and raised hue and cry. There was soon a hot pursuit, other motors joined the chase, and more than one revolver bullet was sent after the fugitive. The Latter, however would probably have got away but for the merciless manner in which he was handling the car, which ended in its breaking down and placing him at the mercy of his pursuers. The robber, seeing the desperateness of his position, drew his revolver once more, and turned on the crowd. Those who were armed at once began to fire upon him, and for a few seconds he was the centre of a perfect rain of bullets, several of which struck him ; but, rather than be capr tured, he suddenly pointed the weapon at his own head, and shot himself dead.