BANDIT SHOT
HOLD-UP AT CASINO. SIX OTHER CASUALTIES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegrn ph .—Copyright.) MIAMI (Florda). Feb. 27. A bandit lender, with a wooden arm, identified as A. Y. Yarborough, was killed, and T. Philip Perkins (former British amateur golf champion), two club employees, and three robbers, were wounded on Saturday in' an attempted hold-up at the gambling casino of the Embassy Night Club. Perkins, who was the guest of the Club, was shot in the hip. and one bandit used his body as a shield in a gunfiglit with two poliemen, who were eating in the kitchen when the robbers entered.
The bandit leader was killed by a bullet from the watchman’s gun as he attempted to escape after the gunfight started, while fashionably-gowned and panic-striken guests fled. JSo money was taken. ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 February 1932, Page 5
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