NEW YORK SENSATION
MAN HUNT IN SKYSCRAPER TWO HUNDRED MEN SEARCHING Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK; January 27. One of the weirdest man hunts the New York police have ever undertaken is under way to-night as 200 patrolmen and detectives are carefully searching every square foot of the 60storey 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 and 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 of thousands of workers to their offices would make a further hunt futile. The police are equipped with sub-machine guns and tear gas bombs, and a guard has been established to cover all possible exits.
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Evening Star, Issue 22248, 28 January 1936, Page 9
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149NEW YORK SENSATION Evening Star, Issue 22248, 28 January 1936, Page 9
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