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Shooting of Man in Attempted Holdup Recalls 35 MurderHusband of Ann Schmitt Is Shot Resisting Three Bandits*A murder which took place in 1935 m the 7700 block of HaUted st, when three young gunmen, nil in their teens. shot and killed Mr.*. Anna Schmitt, wife of the pio-puetor of a bakeiy theie, recalled after Mi«. Schmitt’s husband, Fmnk. ua* shot at shortly after midnight lfist night by three bandits who attempted to hold him up in tlie bakery which he now operates at 535 E 79th st.Shot In Ler.Today Schmitt is in '.ne Jackson Park hospital, a bullet wound in his leg. His condition was reported to be favorable. By struggling with the gunmen who accosted him at 12:35 a.m. yesterday as he was leaving his store he succeeded in preventing them from taking $1,200 which he carried In h».s pocket at the time. When the shot was fired in the struggle with him, the three gunmen fled.The murder of Mrs. Schmitt in 1935 occured in the former Schmitt bakeiy on HalsJod St. when she screamed a* two voting men and a bnv, who had said they wanted to hi y a pie, pointed a gun at hoi I and demanded money. One of the | bandit*- fned a Run, the bullet -tiwrk an Kebox u .is deflected and then dunk Mi« Schmitt, k 11-1 mg her imtant'v The gunmen 1 fedNeighbor* Terror!red.Tneie had been a seile* of h«*’d-iijis m the \ lt;in.lv |»i .or to the murder and became of the f,n t men hints near time had hei nme ' ten oi i/ed hv the « r one*. *he Sou'h-;town Ki fmnmid offered n reward foi the capfui e of the kilter*Within a few week- after Mr* Schmitt had been killed, police .u i e*.led Joe Zuirhli*. 17 vears old. Peter Sinkus. 20, and Raymond HaKei son, 15. and charged them (Continued on Page 5)
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Southtown Economist
Chicago, Illinois, US
Wed, Jan 05, 1944
Page 29
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