FANTASTIC HOLD-UP
(From "The Post's" Representative.) NEW YORK, January 11. The most fantastic hold-up in the history of American crime was that attempted by a sailor of the U.S.S. California, flagship of Admiral Lansing, Commander-in-Chief. While the ship was several hundred miles at sea, and over a thousand ! men \ were on duty or sleeping aboard, ihe crept aft from his bunk at 3 a.m. to the room of the Supply Officer, thrust a revolver in the officer's face, forced him to dress, and led him to the safe. Finding it locked, the officer agreed to march at the point of the sailor's gun to the storekeeper's room. Catching him' momentarily off guard, . the officer grappled with the man, ' and the sound of the scuffle brought marines, who ended the one-man mutiny. I The sailor was sentenced to twenty | years. •
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 5
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