TOWN HELD UP
BY DESPERATE GANG
LOOTING AND BURNING
ORDER OF THE DAY
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPY RIGHT
Received Dee. 22, 11.30 a.m. - NEW YDltlv, Dee. 21. ■ A reward or £oUoo has oeen offered for the capture of . Utto Star, the leader of a -gang or desperadoes.. (Jn Friday the gang raided a email tOAvn named Valley \ ieAv, fifty miles north of FortAA’orth. 'They arrived before daylight- in three motor-cars and bound the town’s single policeman. They blew open the safes of the two banks, then started a fire which destroyed nine buildings. Citizens helplessly watched the gang depart, firing a fusillade as they traA r ersed the streets with booty valued at £40,000. The loss caused by the fire they started is estiniated at £30,000.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 December 1924, Page 5
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126TOWN HELD UP Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 December 1924, Page 5
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