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Show I! BANDITS BATTLE WITH POLICE Omaha in Stolen Autos Committing Score of Highway High-way Robberies. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 10. Two men telioved to be the same who have In the last two or three weeks toured tour-ed the city half a dozen times In stolen automobiles, committing a ireore of highway robberies, gae bat-! bat-! tie to the police early today and la-j la-j ler one man was arrested, although ! It is not certain he is one of the i air wanted. The bandits had stolen a taxicab in the southern part of the city and held up six pedestrians at least be-Ifore be-Ifore a squad of police In an avitomo-ibtlc avitomo-ibtlc overhauled them at Twenty- fourth street and St. Mary's avenue They had just left the taxicab and a running fight took place In which a score of shots wero fired, none taking tak-ing effect. Later a young man glv ing the name of Erldle Wright, formerly for-merly a bell boy in a Lincoln hotel, jwac arrested The amounts taken from the victims were all small. |