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I'MHUNT 3 “CREAMCAN” BANDITSMember of Holdup Gang Reported Seen, at Blooming Prat t ieSARGEANT, Minn., Oi.fi)—Fed-erai agents joined state and local authorities Thursday in the wide search for the three members of the “cream can” bandit gang who escaped police gunfire when the thieves made an unsuccessful - attempt to rob the Sargeant State bank early Wednesday.Bureau of investigation officers entered the case because federal protected money was included in the loot taken by the gang in its numerous robberies in Minnesota and Wisconsin the past year.Two of the bandit gang, wounded and captured in a gun battle with Mower county sheriff’s deputies, were being questioned Thursday at the Austin jail.Officers Wound TwoThe officers, informed of the burglary by a Sargeant storekeeper, surprised the gang as it was in the act of opening the bank's safe. In the wild gun fight-that followed, three of the five escaped, two of them were believed injured.The fleeing trio was forced to abandon iis cars and escape afoot. Later Wednesday, it was reporteda man bleeding in the hand gavea Waltham village farmer $100 to take him to Blooming • Prairie, where he boarded a train.Have Prison RecordsAnother member of the ganj was reported as having stolen ai automobile from a farmer iei miles south of here iatc WednesdaySince the two captured, Johi Howard, and Walter Morrell 23, were both from. St Paul, au thorities in the Twin Cities alslt; were keeping a sharp lookout fo the remaining three.Both Howard and Morrell, alia John Specht and John Morrteau have prison records, the latte having heen released from Stillwater penitentiary last July.State crime bureau officers beliQved the bandits were the sucalled “cream can” gang whiri has been preying on Minnesota and Wisconsin hanks during 1h' past winter. The last big robber was $10,000 from a State bank, a Boyceville, Wis., in January.The bandits left behind crean cans filled with water used to coo safebrcaking equipment.
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Mason City Globe Gazette
Mason City, Iowa, US
Thu, May 18, 1939
Page 9
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