NEW YORK GUN BATTLE
Bandits and Police IN FASHIONABLE QUARTER. 1 Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received January 15, 9.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 14. Thousands of shoppers in Fifth Avenue were thrown into a state of panic when a number of bandits, after killing a clerk and robbing a nearby office, engaged in a running gun battle with the police. The battle took place as the contestants were racing through two department stores. The bandits jumped into a taxi. They’ shot the driver when he failed to move fast enough. One bandit was trapped in a shop. A second bandit was wounded by a traffic policeman, and he fell, but he killed the policeman as the latter approached him.
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Grey River Argus, 16 January 1941, Page 6
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