BANK BANDITS’ DARING CRIME.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19267, 2 January 1931, Page 1

BANK BANDITS’ DARING CRIME.

FOUR LIVES TAKEN IN AMERICAN CITY. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.) NEW YORK, December 31. News from New Orleans states that four lives were taken to-day in a bloody climax to the bank banditry that has terrorised that city during the year. Three white hooded bandits, wearing long linen coats, walked into a local savings bank and announced their entry’ with a blast from a shotgun, immediately’- killing the bank guard, who was reaching for his pistol. They continued to fire steadily with revolvers and shotguns until, having scooped 3100 dollars from the teller’s window, tbfey fled. A patron of the bank and the cashier were killed by the fusillade. One bandit was wounded by a ricocheting bullet from his own weapon. The police gave chase and captured two robbers iri a garage, but while taking them to gaol, one leaped out of the automobile and escaped and another was shot and killed by a detective while being taken to the scene of the robbery.