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$4,000 Of $6,000 TakesIn Detroit Robbery RecoveredTHREE OAKS. Sept. 26(Special) — State police shot and killed a 23-year-old Pontiac youth near here early today after he had staged a $6,-000 holdup in Detroit and kidnaped a Pontiac man and a Cass county deputy sheriff in his wild flight across thastate.The youth, identified m Bruce McLeod, of Pontiac#was dead on arrival at Pawat-ing hospital in Niles.He was shot by state police two miles east of Three Oaks at 7:40 a. rru Troopers Patrick Lyons and Andrew Muth, of the New Buffalo post, said they opened fire on McLeod when he refused to halt.Fired On PoliceThe Pontiac youth was ihot ashe ran from his car which had been wrecked after running a state police roadblock near Galien. He attempted to shoot his way te freedom.Neither officer was hit during the crackling battle when the gunman tried to flee on foot after ths stolen car he was driving was fore-led off the pavement onto the grav-1 el shoulder of highway M-60 east ofThree Oaks. Trying to take coverin the clouds of dust, McLeod open-led fire on Officers Muth and Lyons.They* returned the fire with deadly accuracy despite the dust rolling up after McLeod swerved off the concrete pavementHit By Two Bullet*An autopsy performed at Paw aims hospital showed that McLeod was killed by two bullets fired from Muths revolver. Trooper Lyons was firing a not gun. Muth hit the bandit twice m the upper rightshoulder, piercing the nght lung ’jand severing a larce artery.The shots were withm six inchesof each other.That was good shooting!’ commented Coroner G. I. Rice of Nile*.Recover S 1,000At the Nile* hospital morgue search of the dead bandits cloth-msr yielded nearly $4,000 in currency stolen, along with a number of checks, m the holdup of a supermarket m Detroit yesterday atclosing time, state police reported. McLeod was reported to have ■’j stolen three cars, disarmed two po-Micemen, and held captive briefly a• [Detroit store owner in his wild flight si across the state.This is the sequence of events s leading to the roadside battle, u• listed by New 3ufTa!o state police: ’, Robs Super-Market! Date yesterday McLeod enteredi the Detroit super-market and point-I mg a gun at the manager. Lester ^.Thompson, demanded money. The m manager surrendered nearly $5,000 l,in currency and checks.The gunman fled the store and• drove to a secluded area in the Bloomfield Hills district where he was apprehended m the act of burning the checks by a deputy sheriff. McLeod kidnaped the deputy. but released him a abort time•1 later.McLeod next appeared at Pontiac where he kidnaped a man police identified as Charles Schreiber, and forced Schreiber, drivinf a Btnck car, to drive him aouthwtat-wa rd.At this point a puxxlin* incident occurred, Mrs. Schreiber received a telephone call from her husband, who said he was in Tekomha, a yJI-g I late on M-60 in southern CalhounSee BAJfDIT, Fa«a §.f,1ss
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St Joseph Herald Press
St Joseph, Michigan, US
Sat, Sep 26, 1953
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