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TRIO WHO ESCAPEDOFFICERS’ GUNFIREOBJECT OF SEARCHFEDERAL PROTECTED MONEYINCLUDED IN LOOT OBTAINED BY GANG.RETwo of Men Who Fled BelievedBeenClash With Police.V,Theordappfun*pro*T14.AbillionSargeant. Minn.. May 18 (UP) —Federal agents joined state and local authorities today in the wide search for the three members of the cream can bandit gang who escaped police gunfire when thethieves made an unsuccessful attempt to rob the Sargeant state bank early yesterday.Bureau o: 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. ITwo of the bandit gang, wounded and captured in a gun battle with Mower county sheriff's deputies. were being questioned today at the Austin jail.Officers Surprise Gang,The officers, informed of the.burglary by a Sargeant storekeeper, •surprised the gang as they were ; pur^ in the act of opening the bank's j safe. In the wild gun fight that] D followed, three of the five escaped, ] two cf them were believed injured.The fleeing trio was forced to abandon their cars and escape i Lafoot. Later yesterday, it was re-j pre; ported a man bleeding in the hand ; zioigave a Waltham village farmer $100 j repito take him to Blooming Prairie, where he boarded a train.FIGHES'ropRicstinetheforieniiAnother member of the gang was 1 Gr« reported as having stolen an autc- j Pal mobile from a farmer ten miles j mil south of here late yesterday.Twin Cities Watched.Since the two captured, John j Howard. 40. and Walter Morrell, 29, were both from St. Paul, authorities in the Twin Cities also were keeping a sharp lookout fcr the j East, remaining three. { DelBoth Howard and Morrell, alias | planJohn Specht and John Morneau. ed st have prison records, the latter hav- j stage mg been released from Stillwater penitentiary last July.State crime bureau officers believed the bandits were the so-cail- J ^em ‘ ed cream can gang which has j been preying on Minnesota and Wisconsin banks during the past winter. The last big robbery was j Splt; $10,003 from a state bank at Boyce- j w’ere ville. Wis.. in January. | pape:The bandits left behind cream cans filled with water used to cool safebreaking equipment.in figism ier citbloc crisisUNIT OF HIGHWAYDIVISION DROPPEDoutliiwhicltwoviolato esPalesish 6 long stron in thAlt in aHOFFMAN ANNOUNCES ABOLI- comr; OVfTfTION OF PLANT AND EQUIP- j ~,PveMENT SECTION. i cantsituaFarSt. Paul. May 18 (UP)—Abolition of the plant and equipment unit of the maintenance division at an estimated caving of $500,000 per year was announced today by StateirHwarr P.rmmiQdnBPr .1 T-TofT-
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Moorhead Daily News
Moorhead, Minnesota, US
Thu, May 18, 1939
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