Hide Article Text (OCR)
DILLINGER GANGBELIEVED IN ON NAUVOO ROBBERYi _Bandits Get $8,000 From Illinois Bank and Flee in Au-ttomobile jNAUVOO. ILL., Jan. 18—(UP) —A band of bank robbers, believed beaded by John Dillinger. notorious escaped Indiana convict, was' sought in this section today for, the robbing of the Bank of Nau-j voo late yesterday in which $8,000 j ' in cash was obtained.Armed with machine guns three bandits entered the banking house and held three employes at bay j while a fourth member of the gang rifled money boxes./ hicago authorities after study-j ing descriptions of the bandits expressed the belief that the robbery was another crime perpetrated by ' Dillinger and his gang.! After staging their robbery the i bandit gang hurried from the building. got into a waiting automobile end «ped away from the city. The robbery required approximately ; thirty minutes to complete.; Employees of the bank were i locked in a vault by the bandits and later released when their cries attracted passorsby who succeeded in removing the vault door from its hinges to free the prisoners.Earlier in the week the Dillinger gang was charged with robbing the First National Bank of East Chicago. Ind.. in which $20,000 was taken and a policeman killed when the gunmen were forced to shoot their way out of the building.
Newspaper Details
Murphysboro Daily Independent
Murphysboro, Illinois, US
Thu, Jan 18, 1934
Page 5
Full Page
Clipped by
Musser P.
IA, USA 24 Dec 2016
Other Publications Near Murphysboro, Illinois
Southern Illinoisan the Daily Independent
Murphysboro Daily Independent
