BANDITS FATE

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 729, 11 March 1926, Page 6

BANDITS FATE

UNLUCKY THIRTEEN Thirteen minutes aftc r 2 o’clock in, ( tlie afternoon on the 13th day of January should have been a warning •; v to four bank robbers of Toledo, Ohio, if they had been more attentive to the study of superstition. Scoffing at ' the “13” superstition the quartette robbed tlie Rank of Hadley .'at Had- r ley, a fow n of 3130 population, near-.G'; Flint, in the State of Michigan, stepped out of the front door with bags’'; of gold and currency in their hands—and were greeted with a fusilado of shots.* 1 v Three of the men fell wounded in - the snow, dropping tlieir money < bags, 'flic fourth reached the waiting automobile, and escaped from Hadley, only to drive into the hands, of State police at Flint. ‘ ‘- V' The robbers’ car appeared in Hadley about 2 o’clock in the .afternoon," and drove through the main street slowly several times. It was 2.12 piin., according to B. F. Hadley, telephone exchange manager, when the motor car.stopped iu front of the bank. ‘