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Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1926, Page 3

BANDITS’ HAULS. NEW YORK, July 4. A daring bind of robbers who last week raided the Roosevelt Hospital, escaping with £2.990 arc causing! daily increasing consternation among the police of New York and New Jersey. They are operating with amazing success in a series of most spectncular acts of banditry. On Saturday night they descended in force on the factory of Merck and Co., manufacturing chemists, bound nine employees with wire, shot a tenth, knocked an eleventh senseless, blew (fin ii siife, and carried away in <i motor-van £8,900 worth of morphine and other drugs. Last evening the bandits appeared, 12 ill number and all well armed, at nil ice-cream factory in the upper part of New York City. They arrived just as the company's drivers were paying in their receipts for the day. Thirty drivers and other employees found themselves facing the bandits’ pistols, while the leader of the band scooped up £1,600 from the cashier’s desk. Tn the early hours of this morning tho bandits swooped down on another ice-cream factory at Perth Amboj, New Jersey. They bound six watchmen with wire and captured a passerby who happened to press bis face against the window of the office to see wliat was happening inside. Next they trussed up an engineer, and, finally, "with nitre-glycerine they blew out the combination of the safe where £8.090 was reposing. All this they took away with them. The leader of the gang lias been recognised as a man named Rodgers, a notorious cracksman who several months ago escaped from Sing Snug, New York’s great- gaol.