GREAT EXPLOSION
ROBBERS' FEAR OF BETRAYAL SIOUX FALLS (South Dakota), January 1. A dynamite explosion which shattered much property here and shook the countryside for a distance of 50 miles resulted in the death of one of five members of a band of robbers who a few days ago escaped with> 30,000 dollars' worth of jewels from a local jewellery store. There was a quarrel over the division of the spoils. The fear that one of their number might betray them to the authorities led the four others to tie him in a shed where a hardware dealer had stored the explosive, and detonate it. A girl friend of the condemned man, who was also to be executed, fled, but was 'atally shot She told the story.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 22
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