GANGSTERS ESCAPE
FROM A POLICE “TRAP” AN AMERICAN EPISODE Ity Telegraph —Copyright —Press Assn, CHICAGO, August 16. Two gangsters believed to be members of a widely-ramified kidnapping gang made a sensational escape from an elaborate trap laid by Federal agents armed with machine-guns. The gangsters had demanded a further 50,000 dollars from Jake Factor, who enlisted the aid of the police. A detective disguised as a messenger boy was given the money to take to a roadside resort. When he paid the money over he was to give a signal to an aeroplane, which in turn was to radio the police to block all roads in the vicinity. The kidnappers took the money and started away in an automobile. The aeroplane broadcasted a warning, when the pilot dipped low and started firing at the automobile with a machine-gun. Meanwhile a score of police in automobiles went into action, and fired upon and wrecked the gangster’s car, but the occupants succeeded in gaining their freedom on foot through underbrush. It is now stated that only a few bills were given the gangsters for purposes of evidence if they were caught, and not the whole 50,000 dollars demanded.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 198, 17 August 1933, Page 2
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