ROBBERS RESENT ARREST

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1929, Page 9

ROBBERS RESENT ARREST

TWO KILLED IN GUN BATTLE ECHO OF SAM FIDDLE’S LOSS WAR WITH CHICAGO POLICE By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian Press Association. Received Oct. 10, 10.10 p.m. Sun Cable. New York, Oct. 9. Two are dead and three wounded as the toll of shooting between the police and Chicago criminals when the former went to-night to arrest the alleged perpetrators of the robbery at Sam Fiddle’s road house at Palm Garden, Chicago. That picturesque hold-up, the fifth this year at Sam Fiddle’s, was executed by a well-known gang, and the police swooped down upon their home. Sergeant Leo Fox, of the Lansing police, was killed, and the other bullet victim was Walter Warzinsky, aged 22, leader of the bandits. The police bombarded the robbers’ rooms with machine-guns. The cables related on Monday that Sam Fiddle had been robbed so often that he merely sighed when the leader of a bandit band announced his presence at 5 a.m. on Sunday by rising from a wine table and firing a volley into the floor. Sam opened the cash register and stood aside while the leader of the gang cut short the syncopations of the orchestra and with 100 guests lined against the wall the robbers expeditiously removed £3OO from the till and took jewels worth £lOOO from the women. Instead of backing, out of the doors thesix robbers then ordered drinks and smokes for everybody “on the house.” When the bandits withdrew it was found the ignition system of all the nearly motor-cars were disabled so that pursuit was hopeless.