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GUN BATTLE WITHisntBANDITS HERE WINScAWARD FOR RICHARDSNIs(tiven Publisher’s $100 vZPrize for Bravest Act in SeptemberPatlolt; ! Pi.t I HerII-t c at re inHis ronraco in exchanging shots I with four gunmen, one of tihom shot and killed Joseph Adduces. 10 K. 117th strc t, Scptcmber 15,‘•4 j has won the $100 regard offered | by Col. Pola r! McCormick, Chicago j publish* r. for the bravest act by a Chicago poliuman for September, for Officer Russel Richards, 131 t. UMh street.Richards, formerly attached toKensington station for \rars, is now a numbfr of the industrial squad at thr detective bureau. Recommendation that the award go to him came from Capt. M. J. Orady of Kensington, his forme r commanding off icer.t iff duty at tin time. Richard* pass* d the barber shop at llMh street ami Michigan avenue where Adducci was slain, just as the gunman dash* d °ut witli drawn r« vol\ -ers. Richards dr* w his gun and wounded one of the* men who dropped to the pavement. Cnmind-fut of the bull* ts that flew around him, he continued to fire, wounding a second who was dragged by a eonf*d*rate into the get-away auto.Puring hi* nine vrars here Richards v\.is one of the mo*t popular men in the station. lie formerly lived in Washington Heights and hi* parents now live with his sister at Morgan street. Severalbrothers and another sister Inc* in Kern* nod.*eI -J.k.s.IIidnd.toin4reu1C'fR
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Chicago South End Reporter
Chicago, Illinois, US
Wed, Nov 28, 1934
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