GUN-FIGHT WITH ROBBERS
DRAMATIC BATTLE NEAR BANK BANDIT LEADER KILLED Reed. 9.5 a.m. SHAKOPKE (Minnesota), Tues. This quiet village was the scene of a repulse of a hank robbery that worked out with the precision of a movie drama. The chief of police got the tip that bank robbers proposed a visit. He hid riflemen in a blacksmith’s shop, with a machine-gun commanding the whole situation from a second-storey window opposite the bank. The battle came at the scheduled hour The tellers handed the bandits £3OO. Then the gun fight, commenced More than 100 shots were fired. Bud Mclnerney. from St. Paul, the bandit leader! was killed and two companions " A* 3 unique feature was that the vil- , * butcher, without advance nitorlage hutene , bbery , dashed from F’T'hon with t rifle, brought down one Sss.sk battle ended.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 843, 11 December 1929, Page 9
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