DARING ROBBERY
OF BANK CAR. A POLICE MAN KILLED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). CHICAGO, September 22. Six machine-gun bandits held up a Federal Reserve Bank automobile in the centre of the city, seized two money bags and fled under cover of a dense smoke screen emitted from their own motor-car. They killed one policeand in making their escape. Estimates of their , loot ranged as high as 500,000 dollars, but it included a' considerable amount of unnegotiable paper. Timing the robbery to a split second, the bandits descended upon the bank car, training five machine guns on it, and as they leaped from their own vehicle huge clouds of thick black smoke poured from the machine and blinded the victims. The bandits’ car in making the escape collided with an automobile carrying three girls and three hoys. Roth machines were overturned. A ■policeman who ran up to investigate was instantly riddled with machine-gun bullets and the bandits then commandeered a passing automobile and continued their flight, .
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1933, Page 6
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166DARING ROBBERY Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1933, Page 6
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