DARING CRIMES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 March 1925, Page 5

DARING CRIMES.

BANDITS AT WORK

OCCURRENCES IN NEW YORK

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, March 14.

Three sensational robberies occurred in the metropolitan district to-day, which for daring have not lately been rivalled. Three bandits entered a Tuchehee (New Jersey) bank, shot and. mortally wounded Mr. Rice (the president), bound the cashier and his wife and seized a bag containing six thousand dollars. They attempted to escape in an automobile, which zigzagged on to a tree stump in . a country road and was wrecked.

A posse of enraged citizens, including men and women,, trailed the robbers to the woods and surrounded them, and after a gun battle the bandits surrendered, one being wounded. A sum of 5500 dollars was recovered

Four robbers entered a business office at Long Island city, smashed the faces of the paymaster aiid the treasurer with revolver butts, seized eight thousand dollars in a payroll and escaped in an autoniobile. A passerby gave, chase, but the effort was futile, as the ear was soon lost in a maze of traffic. Six robbers held up an automobile carrying a paymaster and a bookkeeper from a bank with 4500 dollars for the payroll of the employees. in a. textile mill in Trenton, New Jersey. They seized the funds and escaped in a motor car, which quickly out-distanced the victims’ machine.