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Connoisseur. In St. Louis, as four holdup men were leaving the home of Mr. & Mrs. William J. Roehl with $25,000 worth of loot, one remarked politely: "You certainly have a nice place here...
...holdup men seemed to have made a clean getaway in New England's biggest holdup since the $1,500,000 Brink's robbery...
Stand by the Citizenry Three times since 1946, holdup men have tried and failed to rob the little Bank of Middleton at Middleton (pop. 350), Tenn. Last week, when a customer slipped out to report that a fourth holdup was in progress, Middleton's citizens reached for their guns. That was just too bad for a 36-year-old Memphis desperado named Robert Henry Bondurant...
...robber forced Captive Madden into his car. But Madden was hit by shotgun pellets, and his tires were flattened by bullets. The holdup man leaped out, dodged to a pickup truck in a hail of lead, got into it and drove it into a ditch. He fell out, bleeding from two serious wounds and peppered with innumerable shotgun pellets, ran 20 yds. and surrendered to a deputy sheriff...
...youngster who had been shot in the holdup had come out of surgery. "The kid was lucky," the surgeon said. "An inch or two either way, and the bullet would have severed the aorta or portal vein or the hepatic artery. As it is, he'll live...