TWO-GUN BANDIT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 185, 30 March 1932, Page 5

TWO-GUN BANDIT

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i policemAN killed in vancouver street battle r XOTORIOUS CRIMINAL AT BAY

-By Telegva.pl) — Copyrlght).

f , YANCOUYER, Moriday. ' This city's inost notorious hahdit, - ^illiam Bagley, hroke away from tiiree months' hiding, commaiideered 0 a policeman's car and finaliy fbught t> agun duel with the officers. He killed d ®e and then escaped. . . i» A convicted hahk robher, Bagley aiid ] four others broke gaol in December. 1 Ihree of them were recaptured, but ^aglev and Fawcett escaped.

I Within three weeks they have crackj» ed four safes, terrorised two cohst | villages and were preparing for an"ther bank burglary when they ran S {oul of Pdlice-Offider Camerdih who jj ti'ailed them in a car until the bandits f ] seized him and made him prisonef ih , Ms own car which they forced him, to l drive. ^ Fawcett later returned to the city ^ pick up a cache of rifles when the ■j Police captured him. Meanwhile Bag- % was becoming suspicious. He hailg ed a passing inotorist, using Cahier°n's police badge to commandeer the Car, and started hack to the city to ^ see what had happened to Fawcett. The police got on his trail and forcei his car into the kerb. Bagley leaped shooting with revolvers in hoth hands. He killed Officer Maxwell escaped in a dark lane .The bigHsest manhunt in the city's history is proceeding.