GANGSTER SHOT.
ROBBERY AT HOLLYWOOD. NEW~YORK, April 4. A message from Hollywood states that Joseph Luby, a gangster who was wanted in Detroit for a double murder, was himself shot to-day following a running fight with police officers. Luby, who was aged 27, left a motorcar in front of a bank with the engine running and slipped inside. He field up the teller, snatched £2OO and then dashed out, but .luck was against him, for he almost fell into the arms of a policeman. Struggling free, he leaped into the car and speeded along the crowded Hollywood Boulevard. The police cornered him in a vacant lot. “All right, I surrender,’ 7 Luby called, but when the officers approached lie started firing. The first shot fired by one of the policemen killed him, and his finger prints half an hour later completed his identification.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 110, 5 April 1930, Page 9
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