ROADHOUSE OWNER SHOOTS GANGSTERS.
MERRIMENT CONTINUES FOLLOWING " INCIDENT.” (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, July 27. Two bandits were shot dead by Tony Sodo, a roadhouse proprietor, in a Chicago suburb. Three robbers suddenly entered the dance hall of the roadhouse. While one covered the victims with a machine gun, the other two stripped the men and women of their cash and jewels. Unobserved, Sodo slipped outside, where lie kept, a sawn-off shot-gun for such an emergency, and when the robbers left hastily they met a withering broadside. Two were. killed, but the third escaped, wounded. The entire booty was left and was re-distributed among the merrymakers.
After the excitement had subsided the dance proceeded.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19134, 29 July 1930, Page 1
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