THE FATAL BUTTON
FTVE SHERIFFS AS EXECUTIONERS.
KANSAS CITY, July, 30.
Three, bank robbers,- who sprayed bullets- into a- Republicau National Conventiou crowd two years ago, were hanged to-day for the murder ,of Janies' Smith, .'the city’s most popular traffic-policeman. One of five hut-tons pressed by five deputy-sheriffs released (he gallows trap. , Off ".June 14; 1028; the robbers held up the. Home Trust. Company, and sect 1 rod £-1000, hat a clerk released tear .gas, which drove them out. Tho. cornered rribbors -shot ' their way-" to a -waiting motor car, wounding several citizens arid killing S'mith:-
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11280, 9 August 1930, Page 2
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96THE FATAL BUTTON Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11280, 9 August 1930, Page 2
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