OUTRAGES IN AMERICA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20292, 28 December 1927, Page 9

OUTRAGES IN AMERICA

BANK ROBBERS INTERCEPTED. TWO POLICE OFFICERS KILLED. (Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright ) NEW YORK December 26. Police-lieutenant Kenmer, while shopping for a children’s Christmas tree, saw robbers in a bank and opened fire upon them. The robbers returned the shot and fatally wounded him. When dying he scribbled the number of the fleeing motqr car on a piece of paper. The owner, when arrested, allegedly confessed that he was robbing the bank in order to buy his sweetheart a present. Another outrage is reported from Circo (Texas). Four bandits, led by one attired as Santa Claus, snatched £IOOO from the counter of the First National Bank. The police opened fire as he was escaping. In the exchange of shots the chief of police was fatally wounded and several people were hit in the hail of stray shots. —Sydney Sun Cable. BAD FEELING BETWEEN POLICE. BATTLE IN MAIN STREET. NEW YORK. December 24. At South Pittsburg (Tennessee) five officers were shot dead, one fatally wounded, and three others wounded in a battle in the main street this evening as the culmination to bad feelings ’between the country and the city police officers.— A. and N.Z. Cable. CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. DISPUTE IN A FACTORY. NEW YORK, December 26. (Received Dec. 27, at 10 p.m.) At South Pittsburgh, a coal and iron mining village in Tennessee, militia men are keeping order to-day after six officers of the law were shot dead and a score of others wounded in a pitched battle between the county and city police. The clash resulted from a dispute in a local factory, the county sheriff siding with the union workers, while the city marshal sided with the non-union men. The State Governor was compelled to order out the National Guards to restore order. —A. and N.Z. Cable. BOMB EXPLOSIONS IN BANKS. WIDESPREAD INVESTIGATION. BUENOS AIRES, December 26. (Received Dec. 27, at 10 p.m.) The police report the arrest of eleven employees of the anarchistic paper La Protesta in a raid carried out in connection with the widespread investigation of the bombing of American banks. These arrests bring the week-end total to 81.—A. and N.Z. Cable.