WITH GAS AND BOMBS.
PLOT TO ROB BANK. (BI CABLX—PBZS3 ASSOCIATION— COPTRIGHT.) (SiiwzY "Sun" Service.)
NEW TOEK, April 23.
Henry Ferneckes, a bandit and four times murderer, confessed at Chicago that he planned this week the most spectacular robbery Chicago has ever known, taking 2,000,000 dollars from the famous Loop Bank, with the possible loss of 100 lives.
Ferneckes was captured 011 Saturday in a library poring over a chemistry text-book. He said that there were 10 in the plot, all perfectly drilled and armed with sawn-off shot runs and rifles.
Acting upon the confession, the police seized three tanks of ammonia, a dozen gas-masks, and smoke bombs designed to cut off pursuit after the robbery. The bandits planned to gas the clerks and customers into instant submission or death whilst they themselves protected by .masks, would loot the vaults and would cover their escape with blai-l- smoke which would almost turn day into night. Ferneckes gathered round him the most efficient gun-fighters in cxistcnc-e.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 27 April 1925, Page 11
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165WITH GAS AND BOMBS. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 27 April 1925, Page 11
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