POLICE CHEATED OF PRIZE
GANGSTER SHOT BY HIS FELLOWS.
WANTED FOR SEVERAL MURDERS. By Telegraph—-Press Jasn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 2, 1.10 a.m. Sun. - Vancouver, August 31. The Newark police have been trying to trace Angelo Camello, a racketeer, rum-runner and white-slaver, for a considerable time as the result of the murders of Lieutenant ' Elwood Gainer, of the Lancaster police, Arthur Fox, of the Pennsylvania State police, Howard Anderson, chief of the Lancaster detectives and Corporal John Bernitsky, all of whom w’ere shot dead trying to trace each other’s murderer. The victim’s own revolver in every instance was lying beside the body. The criminal, whom the police could not reach, met his fate at the hands of other members of the underworld. On Thursday night they riddled Camello with bullets and set his motor-car afire.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1929, Page 9
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