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Show TWO KILLED IN BANK ROBBERY. Bandits Shoot Teller and Assistant Treasurer in Brooklyn. New York. Bank robbers killed two men and shot another in the arm Friday Fri-day in the boldest successful hank robbery rob-bery New York has known for many years. The men secured about $13,112 in bills and checks. Driving to the East Brooklyn Savings blink in a taxi, two men entered and went immediately to the window of Paying Teller De Witt C. Peal. One covered Peal with an automatic revolver while the other started around the partition to reach the interior. Peal's devotion to his trust cost him his life. His hand stole toward a gun and the robber without an instant's hesitation shot him through the heart.' Then, while his confederate quickly seized two bags containing the money t)e murderer terrorized others in the bank with his gun. As the men fled, Assistant Treasure! Henry W. Coombs gave chase. Turning Turn-ing for an instant, one of the robbers shot him in the abdomen, inflicting a wound from which he died. |