FOUNTAIN-PEN PISTOLS.
SINISTER WEAPONS IN GANGSTER’S ARMOURY. THREE MEN ARRESTED, NOTORIOUS CHIEF MISSING. •(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, This Day. The biggest arsenal of gangster’s weapons ever seen in New York was ■discovered when detectives trailed and detained a fashionable sedan driven l)y the wife of a certain notorious criminal. There were bombs enough to destroy the whole of Broadway, and what looked like harmless fountain pens were actually pistols discharging .22 calibre bullets. The car also contained hand grenades, steel vests, machine-guns, and other war material. Three men were arrested, but the car owner himself had sailed for Ireland recently. He had been arrested 23 ( times, five for murder. His total time served in prison was one month.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 August 1930, Page 5
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