THE GANGSTER’S HOME

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1930, Page 3

THE GANGSTER’S HOME

£2,000 ON HIS HEAD. NEW YORK, Dec. 14. Straight firofm Michigan conies a a crime story complementing those which 1 Mr Edgar Wallace has been contri- . buting to The Daily Mail, s Upon the head oi Frederick Dane is - set £2,000 for the murder of a p'olice- . man, Charles Shelly, and the alleged - theft of £64,000 worth of bonds from - a bank in Jeffersn, Wiscnsin. f The murder of the policeman on ) Saturday night and the recovery of i bonds yesterday in Dane’s home at St. Joseph, Michigan, were due to a simple Occident, such as happens many times a day in any city. A young farmer, George Kool, was driving in front of the city hall in St. Joseph when another motor-car driven by i>ane collided with his vehicle and damaged the front bumpers. Dane refused to pay £1 damage and Kool followed him down the street. IN TRAFFIC JAM. When the two cars were brought to a halt by policeman Shelly, who was on point duty, Kool appealed for aid. Bivelly jumped on the footboard of Dane’s car, but Dane drove on. Shelly tried .to seize the wheel, and without a moment’s hesitation. Dane shot him three times, hilling him. The ' murderer sped through the crowd until his car , .struck a telegraph . pole and wals wrecked. Coolly, Da net awaited the arrival of the first of his pursuers, commandeered his car, and with a pistol at 4he head of the driver ordered the man to take him home. But a taxicab outside his residence looked too dangerous, and Dane raced away. Later he commandeered another car driven by a farmer named Wishart, who carried him towards bis home again. But the sight of detectives and policemen scared him a second time, and he fled to the small town of Coloma'. : Meanwhile detectives searched his home and arrested his wife. The house was protected witli three machine-guns, seven automatics, eleven tear-gas bombs and two bottles of nitro-gly-cerine. i Bonds stolen in the raid on the Jefferson bank last month were found in a pillow-case. A curious feature of that raid was that the bank had iust installed a Special biirgUar alarm, which wn«?. tested several times before the fatal day. When it was sounded as the bank was being robbed, no one took anv notice of its call for help. It was the old story of “Wolf, Wolf*” ■