Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-01-22 | Page 11 | Auto Bandits Slay Grocer and Rob Five

AUTO BANDITS SLAY GROCER AND ROB FIVE By Dy Associated Press Preas LOS ANGELES Ca Cal Jan 22 Scores of policemen armed with rifles and sawed off oft shotguns were out today under command of ot Chief John L. L Butler Butler But But- ler searching for automobile bandits who killed one man and wounded another another another an an- anI I other during a series of ot five holdups last night Phillip J. J Metz a grocer was shot in inthe inthe inthe the back when he ran from the robbers and died In an a hospital today after giving the police a meager description ot of three men in a a. large gray car which later was found abandoned and was identified as a stolen car Three other victims reported the robbers were in ina ina ina a different car which the tho police said was taken after the gray one was left lert Herbert Haas was seized as he was v-as escorting a young woman to her home thrown Into the bandits' bandits car robbed shot in the side and back and thrown from the car Chief Butler offered his men a vacation vacation vacation vaca vaca- tion for each bandit captured and Instructed instructed in- in the men to shoot to kill