MORE CASUALTIES
AMERICA'S SOCIAL WAR
GANGSTERS AND POLICE
BATTLES IN" NEW YORK (United Press Association—By Electric Telearaph—Copyright.) (.■Received 25th August, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, 24th August. Despite exceptional police vigilaueo robbery under arms and gang warfare continued unabated over tho week-end. One bandit was killed and a detective wounded in a pitched batllc between the police and a band of robbers caught rifling a shop. Throe gangsters were taken by confederates to an unfrequented part of the waterfront, lined against a wall, and shot down. The result 'was the death of one and the serious wounding of two others. Another death has been added to Friday's battle. Now over sixty innocent bystanders have been shot down by gangsters' bullets in oighlcen months. Six died.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 48, 25 August 1931, Page 9
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124MORE CASUALTIES Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 48, 25 August 1931, Page 9
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