CAUGHT IN THE ACT
BANDITS IN LOS ANGELES ■ FATAL FIGHT WITH POLICE United Sorvlce. VANCOUVER, 30th Aug. At Los Angeles, Wallace Bonnell, 28 years, professional gunman, and Max Boltezer, 18, tho latter just being. broken into the hold-up game, stepped into the Metropolitan Diamond shop while the proprietors were dressing tho windows with precious gems. Bonnoll covered them with guns, while Boltczer swept diamonds worth £2000 into a sack aud stepped outside. There ho came face to face with two policemen, who had watched the incident from the opposite side of the street. Bonnoll tried to fight his way to freedom. ■ Guns flashed, whilo hundreds of shoppers dodged into doorways to escape the flying bullets. When tho smoke cleared both bandits were seen to be dead. Nobody else was hurt, and the diamonds were returned to the owners within six minutes of tho robbery.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 1 September 1928, Page 9
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