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t.\ ■ A ** ip® mP i1 HPP11n mJSPECliE!L11Zander Associated WithRed Barker, Servednhtiltrsinasat Marquettethvasom:rcofafthdosogipliniini| Bt:StiHolland, Mich., April 0 (TP)— Fred (Blackie) Zanger, ;J2, described by police as a gangster operating in Chicago and Detroit, was held here tonight without a i jjf formal charge, in connection with ' ,,f the holdup last September of the ^ First State Bank, In which two ! men, including Chief of Police Peter Dierense, were shot and i wounded. Foot obtained by the robbers totaled more than $70,-000.Chief Lieven.se identified Zan-ger without hesitation as the j j man he saw operating a sub-nm-jst chine gun in the rear of the 1 bank while four accomplices shot their way to freedom after wounding the chief and Pete Dc-jonph, a bystander.Fifteen persons who witnessed the flight of the bandits paraded past Zanger today as he stood in j a police show-up, and six of them said “he looks like one of the bandits.” Andrew Stoketoo, one ] £0 of the six, said bo was “nearly ! certain he saw Zanger firing a [ j0sub-machine gun over the heads 1 of pedestrians who attempted to !frustrate the robbery. ! I”*Tomorrow employes of the aj bank will be brought in to attempt identification of Zanger, who, according to police records here, served a term at Marquette prison for burglary, and several times had been questioned- by Chicago authorities in connection with gang killings, notably in the slaying of his friend, Red Barker.*Ierpcec;incohiafCabaret HHacked
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Escanaba Daily Press
Escanaba, Michigan, US
Fri, Apr 07, 1933
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