GANGSTER OUTRAGE IN NEW YORK
HI KIU.FI); 21 I.XJ L'i; Ff). A TIIOFSAXB SHOTS? FI RED. The gangster crime wave reached a climax in Xew Fork on August 22, \\ hi-is warfare Hared up in live places in tin- metropolitan area. Two policemen were shot dead ami six ethers were wounded;-three rubbers were slain ami Id citizen;- wounded. The outlawry was renewed in. the same district, where bandits recently tired, into a crowd, killing a child. Three robbers raided the .Mendoza Fui' Company. They killed a. patrolman who- was guarding a pay-roll and escaped with TIOIH). Speeding away the bandits tired on a motor car carrying a woman and child and a fireman whom the bandits took for a policeman. AH were badly injured as the rubbers raked the ear with a machine gum The 1 audit' were brought to bay in Bronx after shooting another patrolman, and two were killed. All police reserves were called out. Thiee moie persons, a policeman, a taxi-driver, and a 1.1-year-old boy, arc in a critical condition and likely to die as a result of the gun battle. The dead bandits have been identified as belonging to law-abiding families living iu Xew \"ork. They were only 20 'rears old.
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Patea Mail, 26 August 1931, Page 4
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204GANGSTER OUTRAGE IN NEW YORK Patea Mail, 26 August 1931, Page 4
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