CHICAGO ROBBERY
GUN DUEL IN BIG STORE
United Press Association —By Electro (.Australian Press Association)
NEW january 27
A Chicago message ' states -.—“ Bandits in other instances have done more killing in lesu time, but lor boldness and lor peril to the lives of scores of innocent bystanders, the police records contain no parallel to the case of five bandits who have been raiding the Wiebolt Department Store.”
It appears that two, policemen and two private guards were accompanying a, cashier, named Reisel, who was carry in" a box containing money valued at four thousand sterling under his arm, en route for the hank. They stepped from an elevator, when five, bandits closed in, whipped out revolvers, and began shooting. A terrific hand-to-hand fight between the police, men, the guards and the bandits resulted, the?officials fearing to lire much lest they should kill innocent bystanders. One ■ policeman was killed, and one robber was badly wounded. Hi* companions dragged him into a waiting motor-car.
They got away with the money box which Reisel had dropped in Hn melee.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1931, Page 6
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176CHICAGO ROBBERY Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1931, Page 6
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