GANGSTERS KILLED
A ST. LOUIS SHOOTING
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 11 a.m.)
VANCOUVER, November 23
Lester Barth and Dewey Cabel, notorious extortionists gangsters motored leisurely to a St, Louis suburban corner for the purpose oif* meeting a bootlegger to collect a thousand dollars which they notified him he must pay. .lust before the bootlegger handed them the cash, a car coming behind opened fire with three machine guns Barth and Cabel fled in their car, hut a leaden hail pursued them and both were killed.
The assassins escaped. The bootlegger denied knowing the identity of the trio who relieved him of the necessity of paying his thousand, which he promptly presented to the policemen’s Santa Claus fund.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1930, Page 5
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