CHICAGO GUNMEN
Desperate Fight With Police Guards
DARING BANDIT COUP
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec. January 27, 19.80 p.m.)
New York, January 27.
A Chicago message states: “The bandits would have done more killing In less time but for their boldness and .the peril of the lives of scores of innocent bystanders. ... The police records contain no parallel to this case of five bandits raiding the Wlebolt department store.” It appears that two policemen and two private guards were accompanying a cashier, Reisel, who was carrying a box containing £4OOO under his arm, en route for the bank. They had stepped from an elevator when flve bandits closed in, whipped out revolvers, and began shooting. A terrific hand-to-hand fight between the policemen, the guards, and the bandits resulted, the officials fearing to fire much lest they should kill innocent bystanders. One policeman was killed and one robber badly wounded. His companions dragged him into a waiting motorcar. They got away with the moneybox, which Reisel had dropped in the melee.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 105, 28 January 1931, Page 9
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169CHICAGO GUNMEN Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 105, 28 January 1931, Page 9
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