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ZWICK PLOTTED KOLODZIK DEATHGang, In Ambush, Thwart* ed by Altered Route, Then Heeded Mercy PleaThree unsuccessful plots to take the life of O. E, Kolodaik, chief of police at Middletown, were engineered In the last year by T'oxy*; Bob zwick. notorious killer and bank robber, according to a statement made at Dayton Monday, by Allen c. Scherrer. confessed hoodlum with the Zwick gang,KokxUlk, who was in Hamilton, Tuesday mining, said he had not been aware that attempts were made to Uke him -for a. ride. His first knowledge of the plots, Kolod-zifc said, was Scherrer'a statement to Montgomery County officials.The first attempt was made when Koloddk lived in Hamilton, Scherrer said, who gave a description OX Kolodzlk’s former home *n Krmon avenue, here. He said that Zwick and others of the gang drove past the home and abandoned their purpose when they found the hou* dark.Another unsuccessful attempt was made last January, Scherrer sald* Zwick was aware that KoSodzJ* drove from his home in Hamilton to' Middletown every -day, and that the gang lay in wait for the police chief on the Hamilton-Middle town road, via Trenton.Kolodzlk took a different route on the night of the ambush.Hamilton Informants credited “Turkey' Joe Jacobs with encttnf further attempts. He pleaded wltn Zwick and h}$ cohorts to fon«t the plot In consideration of Kolodrtka family.
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Hamilton Daily News
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Tue, May 27, 1930
Page 8
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