WEIRD MAN-HUNT
THIEF IN SKYSCRAPEB
SHOOTING OF WATCHMAN
NEW YORK, January 26.
One of the weirdest man-hunls New York police have ever undertaken is under way tonight as 20U patrolmen and detectives are carefully searching every square foot of the 60-storey Woolworth skyscraper for a thief who looted several offices and shot and critically wounded a watchman.
The police claim that within three minutes of the shooting the building was surrounded so that it was impossible for the thief to escape. Therefore a detailed search was ordered by the chief inspector who said it would be continued until 9 o'clock on Monday morning when the return oJ thousands of workers to their offices would make, a further hunt futile. The police are equipped with submachine guns and tear gas bombs and a guard has been established to cover all possible exits.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1936, Page 9
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