"THRILL BANDITS"
Crime for Excitement GANG ARRESTED IN NEW Y0RK (Received 11, 8.45 a.m.) NBW YORK, Oct. 9. With the arrest of John Mahoney, aged 20, whom the police- called the. cockiest gunman in their experience, a gang of six so-called thrill hold-up bandits, including two girls, has been iinally apprehended, Mahoney confessing to a. loag series of robheries. He was found when detectives trailed hie sweetheart. He attempted to shoot Detective Tunney, a brother of the former wqrld hcavyweight boxing champion, but the latter wreated the revolver, loaded with dumdunis, froni the gangster. The entire gang faces a possible murder charge as the result of a holdup in which a man was shot and critically wqunded in a safe. They are heing held withoufc bail pending the outcomo of the ehooting. The girls, agod 16 and 19, said they always accompanied the gangsters, none of whom is over 21 simply for thq thrill. Mahoney 's oheervation after the arraignment was; "I'll he sending the DistriGt Attorney a stick of dynamite. ' '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 15, 11 October 1937, Page 7
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