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MINNESOTA BANK ROBBERY
(Keeeived 11th December, noon.)
VANCOUVER, 10th .December
A message from Shakopee, Minnesota, states that this quiet village on the Minnesota River, was the scene of a repulse of a bank robbery that worked out with the precision of a movie drama. The chief of police got a tip of the bank robbers' proposed visit, and hid riflemen in a blacksmith's shop with a machine gun commanding the whole situation from the second-story window opposite the bank. The battle came at the scheduled hour. The tellers handed the bandits 1500 dollars and then, the gunfight commenced. More than a hundred shots were fired. Bud M'lnerney, a bad man from St. Paul the bandit leader, was killed, and two companions wounded.
A unique feature was that the village butcher, without advance information of the robbery, dashed from his shop with a rifle and brought down one robber and was receiving all the glory from the machine gun squad when the battle ended.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 13
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168LIKE A SCENE ON SCREEN Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 13
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