BANK HELD UP
'■ RNREftY IN EAST CHICAGO ONE POLICEMAN KILLED. Fran Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CHICAGO, January 15. John Dillinger, Indiana’s most desperate outlaw, with two companions, •raided the First National Bank at East Chicago arid stole 22,000 dollars in cash. They then shot their way to freedom through eight policemen who had been summoned liy the. automatic alarm, and one of whom, sprayed with bullets, fell dead. . Dillinger entered the bank at _ the closipg hour with a machine gun in a case Tike a musician transporting a trombone. 1 The police were afraid, to use their revolvers for fear of killing bank officials, who were used as shields by the robbers. l-. ' _____
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Evening Star, Issue 21621, 17 January 1934, Page 7
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111BANK HELD UP Evening Star, Issue 21621, 17 January 1934, Page 7
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