NEW YORK’S DESPERADOES
STUPENDOUS THEFTS. POLICE HUNTING DESPERATE GANG. (Reuter.) Received August 4, 8 p.m. NEW YORK, August 3. The police are busy hunting down a gang of mail robbers and counterfeiters, whose alleged head is a man named John Worthington. Their peculations total millions of dollars, Including nearly a million from a Toledo bank, three hundred thousand from a Chicago bank, three and a half millions from the Council of Bluffs (Iowa) bank. Among the effects of the gang which the Government seized were nearly half a million dollars worth of its own bonds, which have been identified as part of tfie proceeds of banku'obberies.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18248, 5 August 1921, Page 5
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106NEW YORK’S DESPERADOES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18248, 5 August 1921, Page 5
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