Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-10-25 | Page 1 | 2 Bandits Shot by Officers in Running Duel

2 Ba Bandits Shot By Officers ink in in- i k R. R Running D Duel ue 1 Bloodhounds Trail Pals In Wisconsin W Woods After Battle NAB ILLINOIS HOLDUPS Five of Gang Cang Seized and 2000 Loot Recovered I 1 Br fly Associated Press LA CROSSE Wis Oct Ocl 25 Two 25 Two of ot four bank robbers surprised althe at al atthe atthe the State Bank of Mindoro were captured today after a series of ot gun battles extending over two counties The first fight took place at the bank The last was in Jackson county where two of the robbers were wounded and caught Two others escaped to the timbered bottoms of ot the Black river where posses with bloodhounds trailed them The four men went to Mindoro in two automobiles and broke into the I rear door of the bank before daw dawn A burglar alarm brought Ed Fox Fo deputy sheriff who hid behind a a woodpile and fired at the men in the I bank SHOTS EXCHANGED The four thugs abandoned work on the vault and escaped in their cars exchanging shots with Fox who spread an alarm At Midway 13 miles northeast of La Crosse the two robber cars were met by Under Sheriff Lloyd John John- son He gave chase firing as he drove his lis car with one hand One of his bullets struck one man but both machines ma ma- chines vanished In the direction of Black River Falls FaUs C. C A. A Riley and Orgie deputIes deputies ties ies f took up the chase and closed inon in inon inon on the robbers at t Melrose Another spirited exchange o o shots hots took place and nd once more the men escaped They dashed into Black River Falls where Sheriff Paul Anderson had recruited a posse that met the two machines as they sped into the cit city A shot from one brie of the posse struck one of the fugitives who gave his name as Roberts He was driving the second car and it crashed at the side of ot the road and officers seized the two wo men one of them wounded earlier The other car ear sUpped slipped away and was found lound abandoned at a a. tourist camp S Five Illinois Bank Bandits Captured STREATOR Ill III Oct 25 Five W-Five of seven men who robbed the First National bank at Ransom of 2000 today today to to- day were captured two hours later With them was arrested Mike de deMartino l Martino MarUno no of Streator who authorities Continued on Page Pace Two S. BANK BANDITS SHOT IN BATTLE Continued d f One said they suspected of ot being an m ac ac- ac The loot was recovered Several citizens of Ransom eight miles from here followed the robbers to Streator Police deputy sheriffs and two two state state highway policemen surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded De Dc Martinos Martino's home and surprised sur sur- prized the suspects Only one shot was fired before the prisoners sur sur- rendered S