BANDIT GANG ROUTED
EX-POLICEMAN LOSES LIFE. NEW YORK, May 17. An attempted daylight robbery was frustrated here to-day by the heroism of a commissionaire, who routed seven young bandits and fell mortally wounded. Six men with drawn automatics left one of the gang at the wheel of a motor-car while they entered the Bronx County Trust Company, situated on the main thoroughfare in the northern borough of New York. They ordered the half-dozen customers and the employees into the bookkeeper’s cage, and were proceeding to ransack the safe, when Joseph Ebbers, a 60-year-old retired policeman, engaged as a commissionaire, rushed in. He shouted the command “hands up” and opened fire on the bandits. One turned and fired three shots at Ebbers, who fell unconscious.
Terrified, the bandits fled, leaving the cash untouched and carrying one of their number, evidently wounded, with them.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 June 1932, Page 2
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