RAID ON BANK

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 April 1925, Page 5

RAID ON BANK

BANDITS’ BOLD PLOT.

DISCOVERED IN TIME

CHEMICALS AND GAS TO BE USED

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

. Received April. 24, 8.45 a m. NEW YORK, April 23. Henry Ferneckes, a bandit, and lour times a murderer, has yon tossed at Chicago that he planed to execute tins week the most spectacular ronbery Chicago that lie planned to execute this two ,million dollars cash from the famous Loop Bank, with the possible loss of a hundred lives.

Ferneckes was captured on Saturday in a library, pouring over a chemistry text-book. * He said that there were ten in the plot, all perfectly drilled and armed with saw n off shotguns and rifles.

Acting upon the confession, the police seized three tanks of ammonia, a dozen gas masks, and some smoke bombs designed to cut off pursuit after the robbery had been effected. The Pandits planned to gas the clerks and customers to instant submission or death, while they themselves, protected by masks, would loot the vaults and would cover their escape with black smoke, which would almost turn day into night. Ferneckes had gathered round him the most efficient gun-fighters .in existence. —Sydney Sun Cable,