FORTUNATE FIND
GUNS FOR GANGSTERS
ARSENAL OF MUNITIONS
THE LEADER GETS AWAY
By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright
(Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received Aug. 20, 11 a.m.) New York. Aug. 25.
The highest arsenal of gangsters’ weapons ever seen in New York was discovered when some detectives trailed and detained a fashionable sedan ear driven hy the wife of a certain notorious criminal. There wcr e Iwimbs enough to destroy the whole of Broadway. What looked like harmless fountain 'pens were actually pistols discharging .22 calibre bullets. Hand grenades, stool tests, machine gnn s and other war material were discovered.
Three men were arrested. but the owner of tho car himself had sailed for Ireland recently. He had boon arrested 23 times — fIV(, times for murder—and his total time served in prison was one month.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2668, 26 August 1930, Page 5
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