THE WILD WEST
BANDITS RAID TOWN. BLOW UR BANK BUILDING. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10,15 a.m.) 6 NKW YOKIv. October 13. A Lizton (Indiana) message states:— The wild west days have returned to America as never before in the robbery of the local State Bank. A group of bandits in automobiles surrounded the town and severed all telephone mains. They obtained a supply of wrecking tools and dynamite I rum the local railway repair shops, and blew the bank buildings to pieces. I bey then continued a long drawn rifle battle with the bank cashier who was in his home across tlfe street from the Bank. The robbers carried the institution s funds calmly to their automobiles and tied.
Detonation after detonation shook the town, nobody daring to venture in the street. Outside aid was unavailable owing to the telephone lines being sever ed. The bandits escaped.
The bank was opened in a butcher’s shop to-day with borrowed funds.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1931, Page 6
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165THE WILD WEST Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1931, Page 6
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