OUTLAW WITH MONOCLE.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16153, 1 December 1924, Page 9

OUTLAW WITH MONOCLE.

CALMLY KILLS POLICEMAN. Gerald Chapman, the notorious highwayman, who three years ago at the the head of six armed men captured in one of the busiest parts of Broadway a Post Office van conlining securities worth more than £200,000, was discovered in the act «f breaking open a safe in a leading store at New Britain, Gonnoclicut, He calmly shot and hilled one policeman who surprised him, and then escaped. Ilis accomplice was caught. Chapman is one of the most daring outlaws in the history of American crime. A year after Ills Broadway exploit he was arrested and sentenced with other members of his gang, to 25 years’ imprisonment, but after serving six months he dramatically escaped from the Federal Gaol at Atalanta. Still at Largo. K He was caught after a desperate light in Georgia, and a few days later, though badly wounded, he escaped again from the. prison hospital. Since then his photograph has been exhibited all over the country, together with an offer of a reward of £2OO for his arrest. After shooting the policeman and causing four other policemen to take cover, he walked out of the front door of the store and remarked to the bystanders: “I think someone has been shot." He then disappeared down an alley, leaving his accomplice and an. expensive motor-car in the hands of the police. Chapman is described in circulars as a stylishly dressed man of medium height, with brown hair, blue eyes, and the manners of a gentleman. When engaged on his burglarious enterprises he usually wears a monocle.