SHOTS IN TIME
OBLIGING ASSASSINS
SAVE A BOOTLEGGER'S MONEY
(Received 24th November, 10 a.m.) VANCOUVER, 23rd November. Lester Barth and -Dewey Cabel, two notorious extortionist gangsters, motored leisurely round a St. Lams suburban corner for ■ tho purpose of meeting a bootlegger to collect a thousand dollars, which they notified him he must pay. Just before the bootlegger handed '. them the cash a car coming from'behind opened fire with three machine guns. Barth and Cabel fled in their car, but the leaden hail pursued them, and both were killed. The assassins escaped. The bootlegger denied knowing the identity of the trio who relieved him of the necessity of paying his thousand dollars, which 'he promptly presented to the policemen's Santa Clause fund.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 125, 24 November 1930, Page 9
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121SHOTS IN TIME Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 125, 24 November 1930, Page 9
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