Show QUICK JU TR TRIGGER AVERTS S ROBBERY i DATTLE BATTLE ON STATION PLATFORM ENDS IN KILLING OF HIGHWAYMAN I 1 4 po Surprised While ReadIng i Newspaper Opens Open Deadly Fire With Au Automatic t tf f East Orange N. N J J. quiel thinking think th ing lug and a steady aim by a postoffice prevented a mail robbery here I One of the two bandits who attempted at at- tempted the tte robbery in the Lakawanna Laka wanna railway station was waa was shot and killed by Eugene Stack postal em em- during a battle on all the station platform Stack himself was struck 1 tc twice by bullets The second bandit escaped Five pouches containing about in registered mail mall and money money orders were on the platform as the gunmen approached A sixth bag filled with federal reserve currency from New York which ordinarily Is la with the other five did not arrive Thursday Stack approached the upper postoffice post post- office platform to await arrival of a amail amail mail mall train from New York at a a. a m. m JI lie He was reading a newspaper as the bandits came up from the theother theother theother other erd end of the station Without warning one of the men drew an automatic and opened fire lire on Stack and a negro helper The negro fled but Stack although hit In the leg drew his own revolver and fired six shots at the bandits One of the men was shot through the chest and killed d. d The other fled down downa a stairway and escaped |