BANK BANDITRY
TERRORISING A CITY SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK. 31st December. News from New Orleans states that four lives were taken to-day in a bloody climax of bank banditry that has terrorised that city during the year. Three wjute-hooded bandits wearing long linen coats walked into a local savings bank and announced their entry with a blast from a shotgun, immediately killing the bank guard, who was reaching for a pistol. They continued to fire steadily with revolvers and shotguns until having scooped 3,100 dollars from the teller’s window they fled. A patron of the bank and the cashier were killed by the fusilade. One bandit was wounded by a ricocheting bullet from his own weapom . The police gave chase and captured two of the robbers in a garage, but while taking them to gaol one leaped out of the automobile and escaped and the other was shot and killed by a detective while being taken to the scene of the robbery.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 January 1931, Page 5
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