The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-22
BANDIT RO6Ey a. WIS;
SHOT DEAD IN u. -
RANK CASHIERS ARE HELD UP
AT POINT OF REVOLVER AND
ROBBED OF $4,000.
SPECTACULAR FLIGHT IN AUTO

The Police Believe Frank HOhl, in
Wild Auto Ride, Managed to Pass
Money to COnfederates. Machine
Wrecked and Pistol Duel With the
Officers Followed.
CINCINNATI, Drank G. Hohl,
notorious automobile bandit, was
shot to death by policemen here to-
day after a sensational three hours
of crime, which included daylight
robberies of two Concinnati banks,
theft of an automobile and a pistol
duel with the police, resulting in
probable fatal wounds to one officer.
Thirteen thousand and one hundred
dollars are missing as the result of
the bank robberies. The police be-
lieve that Hohl in his wild automo-
bile drives managed to pass the mon
ey to confederates.
Shortly after 10 a. m. Hohl entered
the west end branch of the Provident
Savings Bank and Trust Co., fired
two shots at Cashier Edward Hughes,
scooped up $4,000 in cash and back
ed through the door. Jumping into
a waiting automobile, which he had
stolen, he quickly disappeared.
Cashier Hughes fired after him, but
the shots did not take effect.
Goes Into Another Bank.
More than hour later the bandit
entered the Liberty Banking and
Savings Co., ten blocks away, fired
two shots at Cashier Winters, took
$500 in currency, ran to his auto
mobile and again disappeared. The
shots were so close to Winters that
he was powder burned, but other
than suffering from the shock he was
uninjured.
Two hours after the second rob-
berry Harry Buckshorn, whose moth
er conducts an apartment house on
West Ninth street, told the police
that a man answering the description
of the bandit had rented room
there yesterday. Three policemen
called at the room. When they
knocked the door was suddenly push
ed open and Hohl brushed past the
officers, firing as he ran. Policeman
Edward Knoul was probably fatally
wounded.
He AutO VVpacIYnH
Hohl ran to his automobile, which
was standing at a nearby corner, and
bid fair to again make good his es-
cape. In rounding a corner, how
ever, the machine crashed into tel
egraph pole and was wrecked. The
bandit jumped out and opened fire
on the two officers who had pursued
him. In the battle that followed
Hohl fell with four bullet wounds in
his body. He died shortly afterward
at a hospital.
HohI was we'll known to the po-
lice, who claim he shot up an Altoo-
ma, Pa, bank on March 3, was arrest
ed, and while being conveyed to the
Pittsburg Jail threw a cup of coffee
in his guards face and escaped. He
was again captured, but subsequently
escaped from the Hollidaysburg, Pa,
Jail. He was wanted for a diamond
robbery in Kansas City, Mo-, year
ago, where he had assumed the name
of Howe
His Robbery in Altoona.
Altoona. Pa.-Methods pursued by
Frank G. Hohl, when he robbed the
Union Bank of Altoona last March
were almost identical with those that
cost him his life at Cincinnati today.
Driving up to the bank in a stolen
taxicab the bandit forced the paying
teller from his cage and wounded the
cashier. He took nearly $4,000 in
bills from the safe wounding de-
positor he met at the door as he left.
Scattering the crowd on the street
with a fusillade of shots he disap-
peared in the taxicab The machine
was found abandoned several hours
later.
He escaped from the HOllidaysburg
Jail in a sensational manner April IL.
Making a rope from the mattress COW
er in his cell he removed his clothing
and slipped through the bars OF
window eight feet above the floor.
The bars, which he had covered with
soap, were less than six inches apart.
He then drew himself up to the roof
and lowered himself to the ground
with the improvised rope attached TO
a chimney.
Hoh1 began his career of crime in
Harrisburg, his home city, when a
boy.