MURDERER CAUGHT
■<£> LIED WHEN CORNERED; THEN GOT REWARD SHOT DEAD BY POLICE NEW YORK, Friday. A message from Hollywood says Joseph Luby, aged 27, a member of”a criminal gang who was wanted in Detroit for a double murder, was himself shot in a running fight with the police through the Hollywood suburbs today, Luby, who was operating alone, left his motor-car in front of a bank with the engine running. He slipped inside, held up the teller, snatched £2OO, and dashed out. His luck was against him, as he almost fell into the arms of a policeman. He struggled free, leaped into his j car, and sped along a crowded Hollywood boulevard. The police corn- ; ered him in a vacant section. “All right, I surrender,” he called out. But ; when the officers approached he started firing. The first shot by a policeman killed him. His fingerprints, taken half-an-hour later, ectmj pleted his identification.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 940, 5 April 1930, Page 9
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