BANK ROBBERS BAULKED
SMART WORK BY POLICE. MACHINE-GUN IN ACTION. (United Press Association— By CableCopyright.) (Received 11, 9.15 am.) New York, December 10. The quiet village of Shakopee, Minnesota, was the scene of a repulse of bank robbers that worked out with the precision of a movie drama. The Chief of Police received a tip that robbers proposed to visit the bank, and he hid riflemen in a blacksmith’s shop, with a machine-gun commanding the whole situation from a second storey window opposite the bank. The battle came at the echo duled hour.
The tellers handed the bandits 1500 dollars; then the gun fight commenced. Moro than 100 snots were fired. “Bud” Mclnerney, a “bad man” from St. Paul, the bandit leader, was killed and two companions were wounded. A unique feature was that the village butcher, without advance information of the robbery, dashed from the shop with liis rifle and brought down one robber, and was receiving all the glory from the machine-gun squad when the battle ended.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 305, 11 December 1929, Page 6
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