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Two Policemen Injured, On© Gunman Is KilledNEW YORK (UP!) —Four young hoodlums fought a running gun battlc With police in tourist-packed Rockefeller Centerafter a spectacular $10,000 stickup In the RCA building Tuesday.One gunman was shotdead. Two policemen were ! injured and in serious condition today. Another gunman was captured and policesought two mort whose identitieswere known No bystander* were hurt.The gunbattle was witnessed bythousands of shoppers and tourists.It began after the robbers fled with $10,000 from the currency exchange firm of Lionel, Perera,Mantra and Brookes, just across from Radio City Music Hall.The men, their pockets and two paper bags stuffed with U.S. and foreign bills, ran outside and separated, mingling with the crowd*.Hail TaxicabThomas Byrnes. 19, a West Sida hoodlum believed to be the leader of the holdup team, and a companion hailed a cab driven by Al Grecnbaum, m and ordered himto “keep on going One of the gunmen's shots felled Patrolman Donald Baexder, one i of two policemen in Radio City j who fired at the fleeing cab A I bullet ripped through hi* shoulder,I chest and hack. ^fiflI The other pnffrmm. Peter GtFI lagher. 30, a patrolman past re-I tirement age who hadn't used his pistol in 31 years, wa•• grazed on the forehead by a gunman's bullet He later suffered a heart at**._ 'y .,/ ■ i. yV.v JByrne* and a confederate, who eluded police, jumped from Greenbauro's cab and Byrnes commandeered another driven by Patrick Baggio. S3 Baggio drove only a couple of blocks before be was halted in traffic Byrnes, who had been firing at police from the cab, leaped out and ran.Shot Lour Times Byrnes was at the top of a six-foot fence he had scaled when Patrolman George Maine broughthim crashing down with fair shots. Byrnes staggered to the kitchen entrance of a restaurant, j stumbled in, and fell dead in front of several horrified employeesElsewhere, Dick Jwiiap, anNB( employe, had seen the gunmen leave the currency exchangefirm office and decided to follow
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Morgantown Post
Morgantown, West Virginia, US
Wed, Aug 31, 1960
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