BANK ROBBERY AND GUN-FIGHT RESEMBLE MOVIE.
POLICE STRATEGY ROUTS BANDITS WHO HOPED TO CLEAN UP VILLAGE. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph— -Copyright.) (Received December 11, 9.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 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 the robbers proposed to visit the band, and he hid riflemen in blacksmiths’ shops 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 1500 dollars, and then a gun-fight commenced, and more than 100 shots were fired. Bud M’lnerney, a bad man from St Paul, the bandit leader, was killed, and two of his companions were wounded. A unique feature was that the village butcher, without advance information of the robbery, dashed from his shop, and with his rifle brought down one robber and was receiving all the glory from the machine-gun squad when the battle ended.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18941, 11 December 1929, Page 1
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