BOY BANDITS
CARD PARTY “HOLD-UP.” BROKER SHOOTS LAD. (Sun Special). SAN FRANCISCO, June 14. An amazing outbreak of juvenile crime has developed in other cities of the United States, as well as Chicago. Fred Harlow, a Hollywood broker, was giving a party last night, when two bandits burst into the room. “Shell out,” they ordered several men seated at a card table. One man complied by presenting his purse, but Ernest Warden, President of a Los Angeles paving company, put his hand in his pocket apparently to get money, drew a revolver instead, and shot one bandit dead.
The other robber fled, followed by a fusiiade from the guests.
When the mask was removed from the dead bandit there lay revealed a 17-year-old boy, who was later identified as Jack Morrison, a student of Loyola College. He was well supplied with money by wealthy and indulgent parents, who cannot suggest the rear-on why he should have resorted to '•.rime to obtain cash.
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Southland Times, Issue 19277, 23 June 1924, Page 5
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162BOY BANDITS Southland Times, Issue 19277, 23 June 1924, Page 5
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