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Show I1 ffll BANDIT KILLS ! ' iPOLICEMAN BEFORE I HE IS SHOT DOWN, I Robber Secures $20,000 In St. , 5 Louis Bank; Retreats to j 2 Theater, Where He l Battles Officers. i rFTY ARMED POLICE j IN 20-MINUTE FIGHT I Robber Uses Orchestra Pit As j Trench; Face Is Shot S Away. . i St. Louis, Aoril 5. A lone bandit kSIed one police officer, seriously v&ntndecl three others and himself was : k2'ed when he held up and robbed the j Kaslon-Tavlor Trust company here of 0.000 late today. 1 "The bnndil, carrying- a revolver in 'Sch hand, entered the bank shortly I njrer 3 o'clock. There were fifteen j customers in the bank and he herded tfrcm and the employes in m private; room and bepin firing the revolver'.. V riot call was sounded and fifty I)licemen, heavily armed, responded The bandit obtained S20.000 from Louis ! Il Schneider, me calmer, ami sougm ; ituge in an adjoining theater, which vSris empty at the time-. j The police surrounded the (heater. 'line bandit used the orchestra pi'. ! rSoni which to shoot and would rise ( ru4er the lop of it and fire as the pa- itblmen entered. The gunbaltle last-j vO nearly 20 minutes. I Policeman Terrence McFarland was j "Hot through the heart and died in-1 j-Iantly. Patrolman Claude Adams was 'tot in the abdomen.-Police abdomen.-Police said the man's conduct indS-cSied indS-cSied he had become crazed from use c& drugs. The money was found con-1 tailed in his clothihgi ; Crouched in the pit the robber had , 'fcre advantage of being hidden by i darkness, while the policemen stood itCthe light as they entered. ijTohn R. Lanagan, president of the l'jjnk, told the police the man began finng as soon as he entered aud thai fk!p of the bullets passed through" his Itair Several women in the institution institu-tion fainted. lhe robber was shot in the face so tjidly that police said it probably culd be impossible to Identify him. j The dead bandit was tonight identi-i'ert identi-i'ert as Frederick C. Smith, an electrician, elec-trician, 40, formerly of Dayton, Ohio. His identity was traced by a Iraft reg i-tration card. I nn-- -- |