TRAGIC ENCOUNTER
SHERIFF AjND GANGSTERS
KANSAS CITY SENSATION
KANSAS CITY, August 15
When returning in evening dres s from a party about daylight, the city sheriff, Thomas. Bach, shot two gangsters jamd another. 'He had seen -a man rushing a long the ffootnviT,li and exchanging 6 hots with three men in a car.
Making h'i,s apologies to his lady companions, the sheriff—who in true Western stvle keeps his firearms handy—.seized his riot gun, and opened fire on the men in the oar, killing two. In the meantime the bandits in the oar had sprayed Ferric, Anthon, a notorious gangster of Kansas City, with a shower of bullets from a machinegun, and killed him. Ferris had ji'.st alighted 'from his own bar in front of his house when the three ‘‘beer • lm.ro.ns”—his rivals— opened the f-'pai their rr.r, i
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1933, Page 2
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138TRAGIC ENCOUNTER Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1933, Page 2
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