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Show POSTOFFI C E BANDITS IN GUNJATTLE Woman and One of Four Men Captured After licing Trapped Trap-ped In Hotel Room; One Posloffice Inspector Shot CHICAGO, April 2'j (UP) A woman wo-man and four mer, members of a post-office robbery gang, engaged in a revolver and shot gun battle with two post-office inspectors and an assistant who trapped them in a small room in the Hawthorne Arms hotel today. Evan L. Jackson, assistant chief o,f Chicago postal inspectors, and one member of the gang were critically wounded. The woman was injured and captured after she , leaped 30 feet from a window of the j hotel room in an attempt to escape. Three of her companions, o,ne of them wounded, escaped. Jackson was shot through the hip, leg and abdomen. At the Marine hospital attaches said his condition condi-tion was critical. The gang had been identified as 1 the leaders in the $18,000 money order robbery Ojf a suburban postal station April 4. The robbers had cashed $1,000 worth of the orders by using the acount of Mrs. Morris Stein, a shoe merchant. Decoy Gangsters Postal inspectors had arranged with Stein to, decoy the gangsters to the hotel where the merchant was to deal in exchange of the money orders. The conference was under way with inspectors posted in an adjoining room listening when the leaders of the gangsters became suspicious . and necessitated entry of the inspectors. Jackson fought three men while Stein .was wounding a fourth. The ' wounded bandit was identified as Clyde Macklin. The leader was John Courtney, ex-convict. The woman wo-man was his wife, Marie Courtney. The battle lasted for nearly ten minutes before the gangsters sought escape' through a window. Escape through the hotel had been cut off by guarding the stairs to the scene. |