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areciri\c e cr~ ni--iaIonnoysICO.byusetanfir-atlnehisoftheincetm-them-itidereestro-ic-utdndic-th-inaOne Dead, Twoi 'Wounded In%Tavern HoldupPITTSBURG, Ocl. 23.—One man was /anally shot and two others were seriously wounded early today when lour masked gunmen held up a tavern at Center, m Plum township,Donald Schrciungost, liO, «i car-j pettier and the father of live small children, was shot through the heart and died instantly,In serious condition at Columbia Hospital, Wlt;]kin*burg, were John Shanta, 31, and Lotus Arno, 36, of Turtle Creak, R. D. 1.Police said that three of the bandits, armed with pistols, entered the cafe from a front en-!buGlt;AlInchDi(trance while a fourth bandit, carrying a riile, came in through another door.Schreeengust, Sh.mta and Arno, patrons at the bar. attempted to resist the holdup men after they took between $150 and $300 in bills trom the ca^i register. A tight started, police said, and the bandit with the rille opened tire,.juj kiling Schictcogost and seriously asjwouwlmg the other two patrons.The four gun men were believed 1 to have escaped in a waiting au-,r. tomobile./as' Matthew Poiochmk, 46, owner ise of Matt’s Place, *siid he thought \j pie the holdup was lt;i Hallowe'en 1 V lit- j prank, 1*c-PCOr.Tt:prtC5R/My wife and E were behind the bar when the men came in,” Po-tochuik said. “It happened so sudden I didn’t know what to do. The US’ hell with the money. When they 1 tired a shot I dropped behind Ihe f1l|bar and opened the trap door and | •’•[went to the basement.”Allegheny county police opened ‘ a district-wide search for the ban-j dil quartet. A Navy watch cap of £'one of the holdup men was found under the body of Schrccengost.* Shanta, operator of a small coal M'v mine, was shot in the left ankle, ier Arno, a Westim* house Klee trie and Manufacturing Company employe, jlc was shot in the left thigh. Hospi-UU attaches said both sulTered loss ,ut. of blood, ill- Police said At no made the first IP1';of move to stop the b.mdits, At tliey ' ^ i backed towards the door. Arno2X.sinavtoeaDouJpaimeIll'SSCIa lt;ofi *\ itioVt\VIC110►MiOhSt.he leaped on one »t tlw gunmen and In,, in- twirled him around, as' “Shoot, shoot,” the bandit cried.(Another called out “rifleman, ri-r- Homan.”u| It was then that the man with1th t(tc. ritle, who had been standingoutside m the doorway, icentered'v0:and ilred at Sehreecmiost. His.*PS.second shot truck Shanta and thejbuthird Avno. Then they ran fiom Gu101 | the tavern and disappeared, np-,, pnrently making their j»otaway in piHl ^ an automobile.Police reported that an auto- p.mobile stolen Jrom Francis E.O’Brien, of Mepherson boulevard Dimay have been used by the gun-1men in their getaway. The car!was, described as a IP 17 blue 1Chevrolet sedan. McPherson bou- Pnlevard is neftr Plum township. |WIhamli:cTorndC5\111“?i'i-a._n ^
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Connellsville Daily Courier
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Oct 23, 1948
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