BANK ROBBERY REPULSED WITH ALL GLORY OF MOVIE DRAMA

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 47, 11 December 1929, Page 5

BANK ROBBERY REPULSED WITH ALL GLORY OF MOVIE DRAMA

EVERYTHING WORKED OUT TO SCHEDULE POLICE INFORMATION PROVED CORRECT. WARM RECEPTION STAGED FOR BANDITS. (Received 9.15 a.m.-) NEW YORK. Dec. 10. The quiet village of Shakopee, Minnesota, was the scene of the repulse of a bank robbery that worked out with the precision of a movie drama. The Chief of Police received a tip that robbers proposed to visit the bank and he hid riflemen in a blacksmith's shop, 'with a machine-gun commanding' the whole situation from a second-story window opposite the bank. The battle came at "the scheduled hour. The tellers handed the bandits fifteen hundred dollars ■and then the gun-fight commenced, and more than a hundred shots were fired. Bud Mclnerney, a had man from St. Paul, the bandit leader, was kined and two companions were wounded!.

■A. feature wa.s that the village butcher, without advance information of the robbery, dashed from his shop with a rifle and; brought down one robber and was receiving all the glory from the machine-gun squad when the battle ended. METEORITE FALLS AND CREATES LAKE Press Association —Copyrigbi. (Received 10.5 a.m.) RIGA, December 10. A huge meteorlto fell at Kamschatka, killing a hundred! and! thirty neindoer and creating a crater which became a lake.