BANDITRY IN U.S.A.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18323, 15 February 1934, Page 7

BANDITRY IN U.S.A.

10 DEATHS IN WEEK-END MAE WEST. ROBBED NEW YORK, Feb, 5. Ten persons, were' killed . ,in battles between 1 bandits' and the poice.in various parts »{ the United States during last week-end: Most spectacular was the kidnapping of .Richard-.iCjershbl, a leading merchant of Duluth, who was abducted by two men as lie was taking Ins store receipts to a bank. They forced him into another motor car and sped away into the country before,the police could interfere.

At Sapulpa, Okahoma, Police Chief Tom. Brumley and Patrolman Lloyd were killed in a ‘'battle with three desparadoes, all of whom were later slain by a posse. At Chetsea, another Oklahoma town, the Sheriff, Earl Powell, captured Ed Clanton, a noted bad man, but Clanton’s .companions ambushed them and, in the ensuing fight, Powell, Clanton and one unnamed desparado were killed. In Los Angeles, glamorous Mae West, the film star, went to court every day for a week carefully guarded against threats of death should she testify against Edward Friedman, a Chicago gangste.r whom, she declared, robbed her of 12;000 dollars 'in cash and jewels in a personal hold-up. “You will be killed. We will throw acid in your face,” said the notes addressed to Miss West before' she gave testimony. But, unperturbed, she identified Friedman, who was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. ' “Am I doing all right, boys?” she asked the - newspaper reporters in the courtroom, as she powdered her nose after a sharp cross-examination by Friedman’s boisterous counsel.