AUDACIOUS ROBBERY.
CHICAGO GANG’S OPERATIONS
VISIT TO A ROAD HOUSE. (Australian Press Assn.-—United Service.) NEW YORK, Oct. 7. Sam Fiddle, owner of a road house near Chicago, has been robbed so often that it was no surprise to him to have bis fifth visitation of this year. At 5 a.m. on Sunday the leader of what is known as the Robin Hood gang announced his presence by rising from his scat at a wine table and firing a volley of revolver shots into the iloor. Sain merely sighed, opened bis cash register and stood aside while the leader of the gang cut short the syncopations of the orchestra. The 100 guests were lined up against a wall and six robbers expeditiously removed £3OO from the till and look £IOOO worth of jewels from the women. Instead of backing out of the doors the robbers then ordered drinks and smokes for everybody, “on the house.”
When the bandits withdrew it was found that all the motor cars outside had been disabled so that pursuit was hopeless.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17836, 8 October 1929, Page 7
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