TWO GANGSTERS KILLED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 25 November 1930, Page 11

TWO GANGSTERS KILLED.

ASSAILANTS USE MACHINE GUNS. (UrriTKD PRESS ASSOCIATION —BT KLEC7BIC TSL.SORA.FU —COPYRIGHT.) VANCOUVER. November 23. Lester Ba'rth and Dewey Cabel, two notorious extortionist gangsters, motored leisurely to a suburban corner in St. Louis for the purpose of meeting a bootlegger to collect 1000 dollars, which they had notified him that he must pay. Just before the bootlegger handed them the cash a car coming behind opened firo with three machine-guns. Barth and Cabel fled in their car, but both were killed. The assassins escaped. The bootlegger denied knowing the identity of the trio who had relieved him of the necessity for paying his 1000 dollars, which he promptly presented to the polioemen's Santa Claus fund.

BUS CONDUCTOR ROBBED. SYDNEY. November 24. The police expected that the killing of Edward Coughlan, the bank bandit, at Alexandria' on Friday would result in a lull in the gun hold-ups. Earlv this morning, however, a masked bandit clubbed the driver of a motor-bus with the butt of his revolver while the terrified mvssengers looked on. He then snatched the conductor's bag and escaped THEFT ON A LINER. SYDNEY. November 24. The purser on the liner Cathay, John Outram, surprised two thieves in his room on the vessel. They throttled and beat him into insensibility and then escaped with £370. DEATH PREFERRED TO ARREST. PARIS November 23. Determining to avoid arrest for theft, a 22-year-old Spaniard named Almarez barricaded himself in a house and Bred a revolver at the police, who donned steel waistcoats and began to flood the house with gas. , In the house also were Almarez s mistress and her four-year-old son. The latter ran out shouting ''They are dead," Almarez having shot the woman and then himself in her son's absence. One constable succumbed to wounds.