WIERD MAN-HUNT FOR A THIEF
SEARCHING A HUGE SKYSCRAPER
(CJnitoH Press Association-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
NEW YORK, 27th January
One of the weirdest man-hunts New York police have ever undertaken is under way to-night as 200 patrolmen and detectives are carefully searching every square foot of the (10-story Woolworth skyscraper for a thief who looted several offices and shot and critically wounded a watchman.
The police claim that within three minutes of the shooting the building was surrounded so that it was impossibl for the thief to escape. Therefore a. detailed search was ordered hv the chief inspector who said it would he continued until 0 o’clock on Monday morning when the return of thousands of workers to their offices would make a further hunt futile. The police are equipped with sub-machine guns and tear gas bombs and a guard lias been established to cover all possible exits.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 28 January 1936, Page 5
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