BULLETS FLY IN STREET
TWO BANDITS SHOT DEAD LOS ANGELES ROBBERY (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (United Service) VANCOUVER, Thursday. A daring attempt at robbery was made to-day at Los Angeles by Wallace Bonnell, aged 28, a professional gunman, and Max Boltezer, 18, who was just being broken into the “holdup game.” They stepped into a city diamond merchant’s shop while the proprietors were dressing the windows with precious gems. Bonnell covered them with his guns, while Boltezer swept diamonds worth £2,000 into a sack, and stepped outside. There he found himself face to face with two policemen, who had watched the incident from the opposite side of the street. Bonnell tried to fight his way to freedom. Guns went off while hundreds of shoppers dodged into doorways to escape the flying bullets. When the smoke cleared away both bandits were found dead. Nobody else was hurt, and the diamonds were returned to the owners within six minutes of the robbery.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 1 September 1928, Page 9
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