CATCHING A GUNMAN
LACONIC HERO’S FEAT. Eight hundred diners in a restaurant on Broadway, New York, lately, had the thrill of their lives when a lone “gunman” arranged a “hold-up.” The pay-roll, amounting to £6OO, stood on the cashier’s desk. The bandit presented a revolver at the cashier, Miss Frances Garvey, crying, “Hand over the dough.” • The girl fearlessly replied, “Not on your life. You will have to take it over my dead body.” The man fired and missed, but he seized the money and made for the door. Some customers rushed for the exits, others got under the tables, while the more courageous hurled plates, cups, sugar bowls and salt cellars at the intruder. The bandit was about to dive through the door when an employee known as “Shorty” took a flying leap and brought down the “gunman” with a splendid tackle. The “gunman” shot “Shorty” in the arm, but he hung on grimly, and the man was arrested. “Shorty” remarked bashfully afterwards, “I don’t like t those tough guys. They make me side.”
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Southland Times, Issue 21949, 25 February 1933, Page 15
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