CHICAGO BANDITS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 254, 23 September 1933, Page 7

CHICAGO BANDITS

BANK CAR ROBBED. POLICEMAN MEETS DEATH. BIG SUM STOLEN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 23, 11.45 a.m. CHICAGO, Sept. 22. Six machine gun bandits held up a Federal Reserve Bank automobile in, the centre of the city and seized two money bags and fled under the cover of a dense smoke screen emitted from their own motor, killing a policeman in the escape to-day. Estimates of the loot ranged as high as 500,000 dollars, but it included a considerable amount of unnegotiable paper. Timing the robbery to a split second the bandits descended upon the bank car, training five machine guns thereon as they leaped from their own vehicle. Huge clouds of thick, black smoke poured from their machine and blinded the victims. The bandits’ car, in making an escape, collided with an automobile carrying three girls and three boys. Both machines overturned. A policeman who ran up to investigate was instantly riddled with machine gun bullets. The bandits then commandeered a passing automobile and continued their flight.