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EXCITING POLICE 'CHASE
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( ' , NEW YORK, April 4. A Hollywood message states that Joseph Luby, aged 27,- a gangster, who was wanted in Detroit- for a double murder, was himself hhot following a running fight with the police through Hollywood suburbs -to-day. Operating alone, he left his motor car in front of a bank with thci engine running, and slipped inside >and .held up the teller. He snatched two hundred sterling,- and then dashed out, Ibut luck was against him, for he almost fell into .the arms of a policeman. Struggling free, he leaped:into the car and speeded along the crowded Hollywood boulevard. The police, later cornered him in a vacant led. f ‘All right, I surrender |” he called;, but when the officers approached he,.started firing. The first, shot by a, .policeman killed him, and his finger prints half an hour later completed his identification.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1930, Page 5
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