BANK LOOTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17918, 24 October 1932, Page 10

BANK LOOTED

A DARING GANG ROBBERS WITH MACHINE GUNS BEBOIT (Wisconsin), Aug. 18. A band of machine gun bandits descended on the Second National Bank to-day, slugged two men who resisted, forced six girls to carry oat £IO,OOO in bug* to their automobile and then pushed the girls out two blocks away a.«»l escaped. They arranged them three on each running board and escaped behind the feminine protective screen. On the way out of the bank, they disarmed Sergeant Fred Stock.vyejl, the lone member of the police department in headquarters when an alarm sounded. The gang rushed into the bank and completed the robbery with such speed that none could be sure how marry there were. There were at least six, three with machine-guns. Mr iB. P. Eldred was defiant when ordered to open the vault. A bandit cursed him and struck him repeatedly with a gun barrel. The lone customer in the bank started for the door. Another 'bandit felled him with a blow. “Want some more of the same medicine?” they asked the cashier, Russell Mason. Mason opened the vault. The bandits deployed and scooped up the money there and from the cages. Then they waved gun? at the girls, ordering them to “give us a lift.” The frightened girls helped to carryout the money sacks. They were pushed out, unhurt, iii front of the Salvation Army headquarters. Other police, who hastened to the aid, arrived in time to see the bandit car disappear several (blocks away.