TELL-TALE WOUNDS
BANDIT BETRAYS ACCOMPLICES. SENSATIONAL BOND ROBBERY. (Sun SpeciaL) CHICAGO, June 14. Thursday night’s robbery, in which 3,000,000 dollars’ worth of bonds and currency was stolen from a train, was carried out with the greatest precision, the only accident being the wounding of one bandit by another. John Wayne was discovered to-day in an obscure hospital. He was suffering from shotgun wounds, and being close to death confessed, after the police had found several thousand dollars of stolen money in his pockets, that he had taken part in the crime. On the information he gave, the Chicago underworld is being scoured for the other robbers.
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Southland Times, Issue 19280, 26 June 1924, Page 5
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106TELL-TALE WOUNDS Southland Times, Issue 19280, 26 June 1924, Page 5
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