POISON GAS BANDITS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 27 April 1925, Page 12

POISON GAS BANDITS.

CHICAGO'S FORMIDABLE GANG-. LUCKY CAPTURE OF LEADER, By Cable—Press Association—Copyrig’.t, Australian ami N.Z. Cable Association NEW YORK, April 23. Henry Ferneckes, band.t, and four times murderer, confessed at Chicago rifat lie planned this week the most spectacular” robbery Chicago had ever known, taking 2,000,001.1 dollars in cash from the iamous Loop Bank, with a possible loss of 100 lives. i'aniecKes i.ao c..pLU,,u on Saturday in a library poring over n chemistry text book. He said there were ten in the plot. All were perfectly drilled and armed with sawn-olf shot guns and l-itles. Acting upon the euiilessmu the police seized three tanks of mnmoni.’i, a dozen gas masks and smoke bombs designed to cut off pursuit after the robbery. The bandits planned to gas the clerks and customers to instant submission or death, while they themselves were protected by masks. They would loot the vaults, and would cover their escape with black smolui. which would almost turn day into night. Ferneckes gathered round him the most efficient gun fighters in existence.