LAST OF THE GANG.
A BANDIT'S EXECUTION. CHEERFUL TO THE LAST. NEW YORK. Aug. 13. Richard Reese Wliittemore, the "year's most famous bandit, walked to the scaffold at daylight to-day as jauntily as if he were walking up Broadway. "vYhitternore v.-as the leader of a pang whose hold-ups ' androbberies : ' netted £200,003. lie was aged 23, and was the oldest of the gang. All the others have now been killed bv the police or died in prison. , * ...•
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19416, 26 August 1926, Page 9
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76LAST OF THE GANG. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19416, 26 August 1926, Page 9
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