Word: schroeder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman and two men robbed the Brighton branch office of the State Street Bank and Trust Co. of $26,000, spraying the outside of the bank with gunfire as they fled. During the escape, an accomplice who was waiting across the street gunned down Boston Patrolman Walter A. Schroeder, who died 24 hours later. However violent, the incident would probably have attracted little attention outside of Boston if the police had not produced some startling evidence...
...office of Boston Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara Thursday morning filled up quickly. Patrolman Schroeder had just died a half hour before in St. Elizabeth's where he underwent four hours of surgery and had received 77 pints of blood...
...patrolman, Walter Schroeder, 42, a decorated Boston police officer, was rushed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton where he is reported in critical condition...
...business." While escaping, they fired 30 bullets. "At least four of the shots fired by the bandits crashed into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Antony Rossi of 287 Everett St., one smashing into the wall just above a picture of Jesus," the Record continued. Another bullet struck patrolman Schroeder in the back after he rushed in the front door of the bank trying to capture the robbers...
...concerned, they're damned radicals and damned revolutionaries," he blasted out as Schroeder's brother, also a police officer, stood weeping in the background. Admitting he had no "documented evidence," McNamara charged that the crime was not "an individual act" but one with "undertones of revolutionary type individuals" (sic), a violent robbery and murder committed by "a conspiracy involving more than these five...