AMERICAN GANGSTERS
POLICE TRAP EVADED Press, Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, January 20., Two gangsters, believed to bo Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell, shot their wav out of a police trap in Atlantic City (New Jersey) to-day and escaped in a stolen automobile, although possibly both were injured. The police learned that they were hiding in an hotel near the Board Walk of the famous watering place. They surrounded the building, but by blazing away with machine guns the gangsters managed to hold the officers back until they reached an automobile at the kerb! Two women companions were ar--1 rested, one of them being slightly injured.
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Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 9
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106AMERICAN GANGSTERS Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 9
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