OUTLAW WITH MONOCLE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 December 1924, Page 12

OUTLAW WITH MONOCLE.

1 . . KILLS POLICEMAN AND STROLLS

AWAY

NEW YORK, Oct. 24. ' Geiald Chapman, the notorious highwayman, who three years ago at the head of six armed men captured in one of the busiest parts of Broadway a post office van containing securities worth more than £200,000, was discovered josterelay in the act of breaking open a. safe in a leading store at New Britain' (Connecticut). He ca*lmly shot . and killed one policeman who surprised him and then escaped. His accomplice was caught. Chapman is one of the most daring outlaws in the history of American crime. A year after his Broadway exploit lie was arrested and sentenced', with other members of bis gang, to" 25 years’ imprisonment, but alter serving six' months he ''dramatically escaped from the Federal gaol at Atlanta. He was caught after a desperate fight in Georgia, and a few days*.later, though - badly wounded, lie escaped again from the prison hospital. Since then his photograph has been exhibited all over the country, together with an. offer of a reward of £2OOO for his arrest. After shooting the policeman yesterday and causing four other policemen to take cover, he walked out of the iront door of the store and remarked, to ■ bystanders, “I think someone has been shot.” He then disappeareddown an 'alley, leaving his accomplice and an expensive motor-car in the hands of the police. : Chapman is described in circulars as a stylishly dressed man of medium 1 height, with brown hair, blue eyes, and the manners of a .gentleman. When engaged on his burglarious enterprises he usually wears a monocle’. Gerald Chapman was one of the three American criminals for whom the Fnodish noli'-o were searching, in the early hart of the year. 1 -