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MU**'mgefirmIB' '.eket . in pro-theen elandsvs-with'lo no me ner,andhetoack:oloM.iten-starheckseenlongf re-»g-rrierVa.,nilesn vedhr-K I) I T O R’S NOTE: Thecream can” bandits produced one of Mower County’s out-j standing crime stories when on May 17, 10.19 they were surprised by officers while raiding the State Hank of Sargeant at Sar-geant.Two members of the gang, John Howard, a former North Dakota convict, and Walter Mnrneau, were captured while the others fbil. Phillip Martin, Sargeant cafe owner, saw the gang at work in the hank, and notified Deputy Sheriff lain Enochson who, with three policemen, rushed from \ustin toSargeant. Officers opened fire when the bandits made a break from the bank’s rear door.! AITKIN, Minn. (AP)-One nf Minnesota’s oldtime ‘‘cream can” burglary gang, and another man involved in the 1949 burglary kill ing of a Richfield, Minn, policeman are being held by Aitkin County authorities in a burglaryj investigation.without charge are John Collingswood Howard, 71. who served an 11-year federal prisonterm in connection with “cream can gang bank burglaries, and Allan C Hartman, 32, St. Paul lt;who was involved in the slaying | of Riehtieid policeman Fred A.I Babcock Jr.i Howard and Hartman and a j third man, Dick W C Anderson, 134, Minneapolis, were nabbed in a police roadblock at Aitkin early sc* CREAM on page 11son it the i',e2 P3 P.4 P.j 5 P 6 P1 A2 A.3 A4 A.JOHN HOWARD ACream Can Bandit 6 A.SIGNS STATEMENTMurder Cha'•MANKATO, Minn \P - A cons first degree murder charged was Blat filed today against the neighbor P{ and co-worker of Marvin Wendt, Blat found shot to death in his modest ftonhome earlv Mondav bediw *Charged was Joseph Patrick hidiBlack, 31, who lived in a trailer covtnear the Wendt home andHe was returned towhen he said he could notto hire counsel It was indicated he lt;a lawyer would be named to de- Cl *fend Black later A grand jury will be called to Bgainito w ibigg'tionsformwerej Chile| Bo i closeI sessiWELL KNOWN HERECream Can BanditNabbed in Aitkin
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Austin Daily Herald
Austin, Minnesota, US
Tue, Jan 30, 1962
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