CRIME IN AMERICA

Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 4

CRIME IN AMERICA

SENSATIONAL BANK ROBBERIES MACHINE GUN BANDITS NEW YORK, February 24. Two sensational bank robberies resulted in losses of 50,000 dollars here and at St. Louis, states a Kansas City message. Machine, gun bandits looted a Kansas City Bank of 20,000 dollars, leaving after a, fusillade of shots. Fonr young robbers trussed six employees of the St. Louis Bank, and escaped with 30,000 dollars in currency.

TRAIN HOLD-UE

FOURTEEN MILES FROM CHICAGO.

NEW YORK, February 25

Six masked robbers this morning captured a train in a suburban district of Chicago, and took complete possession of the train overaweing the crew and the seventy-five passengers in true Wild West style. In twelve minutes they had blown the safe open in the mail car, and secured 100,000 dollars in currency, and escaped with it in’ an automobile. The robbers appeared alongside the train when it stopped to let off a passenger at a station fourteen miles outside Chicago. Two members of the band went to the engine and held up the engineer and the fireman, and two forced the remainder of the crew into the rear car, while two hammered on the locked door of the baggage car until the clerk appeared, when a volley ot shots was fired, but nobody was hit. These two then dynamited the door of the coach, overpowered the clerk, and obtained the loot, after which the whole six quietly but speedily disappeared.