POLICEMAN SHOT DEAD
FOR EVIDENCE AGAINST Murderer, (United Prtjaa Anneemtion —By Electric* Telegraph—Oopyright). CHICAGO. Mnv U Gangland took revenge on the elii witness against Leo Brothers, who was recently convicted of the. Lingle murder. He was a policeman, Anthony Ruthy, who gave eye-witness te.sli ni>frv. He was killed in a pbtol battle oil the Michigan Boulevard. Another officer was shot, but lie probably will recover. Frank Jordan, a gangster with a specialty for robbing banks, was later captured b\- three other »o]icemen, alter a wßcl shooting melee, in which pedestrians ducked from the sidewalk.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1931, Page 5
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