BANK ROBBERY
FOUR LIVES TAKEN. CRIME IN NEW ORLEANS., [United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] : NEW YORK, December 31. NeW s from New,. Orleans states that four lives were taken to-day m a bloody climax to the bank banditry that has terrorised that city during the year. Three white hooded bandits, wearing long linen coats, walked into a local saving bank and announced their entry with a blast from a shotgun, immediately killing the bank guard, who was reaching for his pistol. They continued to fire steadily with revolvers and shotguns until, having scooped 3100 -dollars from the teller’s window, they fled. , . . . A patron of the bank and the cashier were killed bv the fusillade. One bandit was wounded by a ricocheting bul]et, from bis own weapon. The police gave chase find captured two robbers in a garage, but while taking them to gaol, one leaped out of the automobile n.nd escaped and another was shot and killed by a detective while being taken to the scone of the robbery. _______
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1931, Page 5
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