The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-12-18
AUTO BANDIT RORS
1W0BANKS,,SHOT
BY OFFICERS
Frank G. ROhI Takes S13 100
from Cincinnati Cashiers
HIS CAR WRECKED IN FLIGHT
Traled TO His Room He Is Fatally
Wounded in Fistol Battle with
Officers.


Frank G. Hohl, notorious automobile
bandit, ended yesterday afte' dar-
ing three.hours career of crime
which included the robbing Of two
Cincinnati banks. the theft of an au-
tomobile and a pistol duel with po-
licemen that resulted with almost
certain mortal wounds to one officer
and the death Of the bandit. Thir-
teen thousand and one bundled dol
lars was missing rs the result of the
bank robberies. and the police are
confident that Hohl In his wild auto
mobile dashes managed to pass this
money to some confederate.
Hollis last outlawry started soon af-
tie, 10 a. n. yesterday, when he enter
ed the West-end branch Of The POW
dent savings bank and trust company.
Eighth and Freeman avenues, fred
two shots at Cashier Edward Hughes,
seized $4,000 IN currency, backed out,
jumped into a waiting automobile
which had been stolen and disap-
peared. Cashier Hughes fred at the
ROBBIE, but his shots did not take eI-
feet.
While the police were searching for
the bandit moro than an hour later
he entered the Liberty banking and
savings company bank at Liberty
and Freeman avenue. 10 blocks away,
fired two shots at Cashic' George
Winters, grabbed what proved to be
$500 in currency, ran to his auto.
mobile and again fed The shots
went so close to Winters that he was
powder.burned, but other than suf-
fe.ins f.om the shock he was umln-
jured
Almost two hours later Harry S.
Buckhorn, whose mother conducts an
apartment house on West Ninth
street informed the police OF tho re-
semblance Of man who rented a
room there Wednesday with q d,
scription given of the bandit When
three policemen arrived at the room
and knocked the door was suddenly
thrown open ard the bandit opened
ere He then rushed past the Off
GERS, one Of whom Policeman Edward
Knoul. was probably mo,tally wound
ed.
The desperate again entered the
automobile which was standing at a
nearby corner, but in rounding a cor
ner the machine crashed into a tele-
graph pole and was wrecked. The
bandit jumped out and opened f.e on
the other two officers who had pur-
sued him. IN the fusillade that fol-
lowed Hohl fen with -four bullet
wounds in his body and died soon af-
terward at the hospital he was
identified by Cashier hughes OF the
rrovident hank as the man who had
robbed his bank later other means
OF identification proved to the salts
faction OF the police that the dead
man was Hohl.
Hohl was well known to the police
and was a fugitive from Justice The
police claim that he shot-up IN Al
toona tPa) bank on March %. was
arrested. and while being conveyed
TO the Pitisburg jail threw 4 steaming
cup OF coffee in his guards face and
again escaped. He was again cap
tured, but subsequently escaped from
the Hollldaysbarg CPa) Jail The 20
lice also claim that he was wanted IN
connection with 4 diamond robbery in
Kansas City. do, year ago. whe e
he had assumed the name OF Howe
The police say that Hohl usually had
a woman confederate. a search
being made for her
Mrs Lulu Hohl. who says she is
the widow of Frank HohI the bandit
was arrested last night, but the pc
lice were unable to find any trace OF
the money taken By the robbie.