Bandits' Attack on Bank Car
POLICEMAN RIDDLED WITH BULLETS. United Press Association —By Electric. Telegraph —Copyright. CHICAGO, Sept. 22, Six machine-gun bandits held up a Federal Reserve Bank automobile in the centre of the city, seized two mon-ey-bags, and lied under cover of a dense smoke-screen emitted from, their own motor. They killed a policeman in their escape.
Estimates of the loot ranged as high as 300,000 dollars, but it included a considerable amount of unnegotiablc paper. Timing the robbery to a split second, the bandits descended upon the ( bank car, training five machine-guns on it 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 its escape, collided with an automobile carrying three girls and three boys, and 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.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7270, 25 September 1933, Page 7
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