The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-01-09
AUTO BANDITS
HAVE FIERCE REVOLVER BAT
TILE WITH POLICE IN HEART
OF CHICAGO.
JEWELERS. LAS
Woman Faints in Arms Of Policeman
and Aids the Men to Escape
Officer is Shot and
Stabbed.

Chicago, Jan. 6.-Foar automobile
bandits smashed in a jewelers. win
dow here and escaped with a tray
OF diamonds, after a running revolver
fight with police, punctuated by spec
tacular features. Their escape was
aided by a fashionably dressed wom-
an, who tainted in the arms of a uni
formed policeman as he was drawing
his revolver. AS soon as the thieves
e d and disappeared.
A few minutes later the bandits
car was boarded by a policeman, who
ordered them to drive to a police sta
tion for speeding. They wheeled into
a quiet street, with the policeman and
there shot, stabbed and slugged him
and threw him off the car.
The men abandoned their automo-
bile which had been stolen just before
the robbery and disappeared in a
crowded section of the West Side.
Thrilling Fight.
The raid and running fight was one
of the most thrilling of the automo-
WV "hdi u dSCo III III ItStuJ pre-
valence of this type of crime in this
city.
The thieves stole the car from in
front of a downtown business build
ing late in the afternoon. A short
time later passers in front of a Clark
street jewelry store were startled by
h crash of glass. Two men were
beating in the show window with
bricks. They seized a tray Of rings
and leaped to the running board of
an automobile that was moving slowly
by the curb.
Policeman Charles Hanson ran I'D
reaching for his revolver, but at that
moment a woman with a large feath-
cred hat gave a shrek and threw her.
self into his arms. Hanson could not
draw his weapon. but two policemen
in plain clothes who were passing,
opened fire on the thieves. The ban
dts returned the fire as they climbed
into the car, and one of the thieves
was seen to fall into a seat and is
thought to have been wounded.
Twenty shots were exchanged as the
machine gathered speed. The chauf-
feur manipulated his exhaust so that
it poured out a cloud of smoke, which
aided in the escape. The plain clothes
policemen ran after the car and at
the next corner Communicated a pass
ing high powered automobile and or
dered its chauffeur to pursue the
thieves who, however, had so good a
start they escaped.
The bandits car was stopped by
Policeman Charles Sticken in a traf-
f1c jam a few blocks from the scene
Of the robbery. Sticken arrested the
chauffeur for speeding.
limp in. old man, and we'll take
you 10 the station house." one of the
men said to Sticken.
The policeman stood on the running
board and told the way to &c The
chauffeur took a wrong turn into La
Sale avenue. Stricken turned to pro-
test and received a stab with a knife
over the left eye, a blow on the back
of the head and a shot in the leg,
and was hurled from the car.
The thieves fired several more shots
at Sticken as he lay in the street. He
raised himself on one elbow and drew
his revolver and fired several times
at the fleeing car. The thieves fired
several more shots at Sticken and also
turned their revolvers on citizens they
passed in their fight. None of these
were struck by bullets.