BOOTLEGGERS’ STRIFE
BOMBING PLANES IN USE. By Telerriph—Press Assn.—Copyright New York, Nov. 12. Advices from Herrin. Illinois, state that members of rival boot Egging gangs are now using airplanes to carry ou a vicious guerilla warfare. A low flying airplane circled the house of a gang leader and dropped three bombs. The first exploded 100 yards from the house, doing no damage, and the other two were dude. The gangers ran from the building and opened fire on the plane with machine-guns and rilles, while the plane circled tlie house three times, then zoomed and eped away, lhe pilot kept well under cover and was unhurt.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1926, Page 11
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