UNWELCOME SANTA CLAUS
A-band of robbers with their leader disguised' as Santa-.. Glaus •. to-; allay suspicion raided the National' Bank '(says a message from Cisco;.-Texas {United-States) to a Scottish newspaper), and. after scoopinp ' up 10,000 dollars, herded.,a, number of ' little children, .-together, to.shield themselves from the flying bullets. .One of the raiders was shot in Hie head, while endeavouring to-elunb into a waiting motorcar, and the chief, of police, the vice-presi-dent of "the bank; and a'polieeman were wounded, biit foi'tunatcly'ixone of the children wero hurt; save possibly one littlo girl, who, .the police fear, was:carried away by the. robbers.:; The: money: was snbse■quently-: rocoye'red, Taut the-raiders theui■selves escaped.. '. i .-•.'. I'l".-"* . ■
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 83, 9 April 1928, Page 2
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