SWIFT JUSTICE
MURDERER KILLED CAUGHT AFTER ROBBERY (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received April 5, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 4. A Hollywood message states that Joseph Luby, 27, a gangster who was wanted in Detroit for a double murder, was himself shot, following a running fight with the police through Hollywood suburbs to-day. Operating alone, he left his motor car in front of a bank with the engine running and slipped inside, held up the teller and snatching £2OO, then dashed out. But luck was against him, for he almost fell into the arms of a policeman. Struggling free, ho leaped into the car and speeded along the crowded Hollywood boulevard.
The police cornered him in a vacant lot. "All right, I surrender," he called out, but, when the officers approached, he started firing. The first shot by a policeman killed him, and fingerprints half an hour later completed his identification.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17227, 5 April 1930, Page 5
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