Flying Bank Bandit Crashes After Hold-up
NZPA—Copyright Rec. 7 p.m. NEW YORK, Apl. 4. A flying bandit held up a bank at Okarohe (Oklahoma) today, but the police captured him soon afterwards when his plane crashed into an oak grove 30 miles away. The bandit,’ James Robison, was seriously injured in the crash. He had walked into the Okarohe Bank, drawn a revolver and forced the teller to hand over 4100 dollars. Robison ran from the bank, jumped into a stolen car and drove to a nearby wheatfleld where ho had parked a rented light plane. He crashed two miles from a roadblock which the State police had set up after the hold-up. The police found the stolen money, a machine gun, a rifle, a pistol and a revolver in the wreckage of the plane.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27358, 6 April 1950, Page 7
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