GANG WARFARE
CONTINUED OVER WEEKEND. THREE SHOT BY GANGSTERS. [United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 24. Despite exceptional police vigilance, robbery under arms and gang warfare continued unabated over the week-end. One bandit was killed and a detective wounded in a pitched battle between police and a bands of robbers caught rifling a shop. Three gangsters was taken by confederates to an uufreqnented part o the waterfront, were they were lined against a wall and shot down, resulting in the death of one and the seriously wounding of two others. Another death was added to Friday’s battle. Now over sixty innocent bystanders have been shot down by gangsters’ bullets in eighteen months, and six have died,
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1931, Page 5
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125GANG WARFARE Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1931, Page 5
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