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Link 2nd Holdup To Slain BanditfA second super-market stickup i job has been definitely linked to Bruce McLeod. 23-year-old Pontiac.; Mich., gunman slain by state police Saturday morning near Three Oaks.McLeod was wounded fatally while attempting to escape capture after robbing a Detroit supermarket of $6,000 m cash and checks Friday night. Nearly S4.000 m cash was found on his person.Personnel of a Highland Park. Mich., super-market, accompanied by Detroit police detectives, came to Three Oaks. Sunday, to view McLeods body at the Connelly mortuary.State police of the Niles post said the Highland Parkcm postitivelv identified McLeod as the man who stuck up their super-market last July and escaped with $11,000.After identification as the man who stuck up the Highland Parkmarket. McLeod's body was returned to Pontiac, where it was claimed by a grieving father. Cecil E. McLeod. who said he could not understand his son's mad trail of car thefts and kidnapmgs across southern Michigan after Friday night's holdup in Detroit. The father saidhe was “stunned.’Young McLeod, identified by officers as a mild-mannered gunman, kidnaped four men. two of them law enforcement officers, and took three cars m the course of his wild trip across the state. He was mortally wounded by two bullets from the gun of State Trooper Andres Muth when he refused to halt after riming a road block near Galicn and wrecking his car.McLeod was 011 parole when lie started his 10-hour crime spree, and had only three weeks to go to complete his parole.
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St Joseph Herald Press
St Joseph, Michigan, US
Mon, Sep 28, 1953
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