| Show r BANDITS BAND IT ROB R HO BANKS BANK AT A ONCE NCE E f t 6 B B. TWO TW t 4 t t t 1 J. J 4 Armed Band Strips Vaults of Securities And 27 in C Cash sl 0 I IL L R Released leased ALEXANDER BERG Held Prisoner 1 02 Hours I Gunmen Herd Int Into Office and Stand Guard at Doors I BANKER SLAYS ROBBER Holdups Kidnap Three Men Following Raid Dr Br United Puts Pun MADISON l Ind md Nov Nor 12 A 12 A band of eight bandits raided two adjoining b banks here simultaneously today and escaped with in cash and an undetermined ned amount of bonds The banks the National Branch bank bank o of Madison and the Madison MadLOn State Deposit and Trust company are connected by doors door The bandits bandit all of ot whom carried automatic pistols descended on both institutions at once menacing the 12 with their weapons The were herded Into President John T T. Trevis' Trevis office and forced to lie He on the floor face down down- ward word as the bandits raided the cages cage One bandit stood guard at the front doors of the banks and nd two more in the rear during the ten un minutes min mm utes that the robberies were in POi re ress reta The vault of ot the National bank wa was entered and stripped by the robbers robben but they Mere unable to penetrate th the safe of the smaller institution They took 2500 and the bonds from the State bank and from th the National Bank Official J Slays Bandit in Holdup ST. ST LOUIS Mo NOV 12 UP VP UP-L. I Gregory Dowling year old vice tice ce president of the Midland Savings bank shot and killed one bandit and wounded another in successfully frustrating a holdup at the suburban Institution at noon today but was critically wounded himself in the exchange ex exchange exchange ex- ex change o of shots The attempted holdup occurred just after all but Dowling had left for lunch He drew a gun when the two bandits ordered him hint to hold up his hands and opened fire Police said that the slain bandit was Ben Bethel a n. gangster and nil his wounded accomplice Jimmie Woods an ex Dowling was taken immediately tely t ta to toa a hospital where his condition was reported critical John P. P Feeney assistant cashier said he was returning from front lunch when I heard revolver fire I ran to the bank and dropped to the sided jide Ide- Ide Continued on oa Pace Pice Three Thres I BANDIT GANG ROBS I 2 B AT ONCE d from teen Pit Pile Ont One walk a at the door as the shots shot continued continued con con- I inside Then one man ran put post me and fled Oed Into yard ard I later le learned med It was Woods Wood who was wu capt captured red I went gent inside and on the floor was the body of a bandit while Mr Dowling was leaning against his desk dm deskin deskIn in the third cage caKe on the left Police sold said Woods' Woods condition is 15 se u- u rious He has hi a bullet hole through a eo lung who forsook a moving mo picture picture pic pic- pic 1 ture career arter to enter the banking business at his fathers father's request had been present when two previous holdups occurred occulTed at the savings in in- in On December r 4 1928 he opened fire with a submachine gun as two escaped with 1500 Again on June 11 11 1929 he picked up a sawed off shotgun and fired filed at banI bandits ban ban- I as u they fled ed down the street treet with I 2000 in cash cah Bank Raiders Kidnap 3 Men as Hostages PARSONS Kan Nov Nop 12 UP UP- UP Bandits who robbed the Parsons State bank here today three of or the bank an and forced them to accompany them as hostages The bandits escaped d with about 2000 In cash and fled eastward out of or Parsons in a a. Cadillac sedan with witha a n Missouri license As they passed through the streets a patrolman called a word of warning to the driver when he failed aUed to obey a I. stop light The patrolman did not know the bank had been robbed and said ald he had not noticed that the bank em em- whom he knew were In the car It was believed the bandits bandit might have forced them to sit on the floor of the car as they sped ed through town The three were Jos Joseph ph Flynn assistant cashier and son of or I the president of the bank Miss axis Lila LUa Travis Tram bookkeeper and Andrew Wheat teller The three were alone In the bank when the bandits entered Thus po police po- po lice when the trio were were without a description of or the bandits Persons outside the bank saw the two bo men enter the building and a few moments later saw the three rushed hastily over the sidewalk and into the car |
