Evening star., 1920-10-22
ONE BANDIT SLAIN,
THREE WOUNDED
Four Bank Defenders Hurt
During Spectacular Street
Duel With Robbers.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, October % (by
the Associated Press) Three coun-
ties were searched by posses today
for the remnant of the bandit gang
who late yesterday engaged in one
of the most spectacular bank rob-
berries in Ohio
Amid volleys of bullets, that re-
sembled a machin6-gun engagement,
one bandit, Albert w. Joyce, who
had numerous aliases. was killed. and
three others. including George "Jiggs
Losteiner, wanted for two murders
and numerous robberies, were wound
ed and captured after eight men heid
up and robbed the branch bank OF
the Cleveland Trust Company at Bed
ford of $4,000. All of the money
was recovered.
William Petrie, bookkeeper IN
the bank, was probably fatally
wounded Three citizens were less
seriously shot.
Four of the gang, all of whom also
are believed to have been Wouioeo'
escaped after the battle, which oc-
CURED in lumber yard and in Which
every Bedford citizen who could ma
a weapon participated. More than
200 shots were exchanged
Posses Scour Woods.
All night posses of citizens. every
available policeman of the CleEeiahu
and Akron departments and deputy
sheriffs combed the wooded sections
in the vicinity of Bedford with
torches and flash lamps. Al cross
roads knots of men waited in the
half-darkness. scanning every auto
mobile and searching any that iookeo
suspicious.
the dead one have long criminal rec
ords Losteiner. an associate OF Johh
Grogan, now serving a life sentence
for murder is wanted for the murder
of A. p Chance of Cagrin rails. our
ing a bank robbery, and of Patroinlah
Patrick Gaffnev of East Cleveland.
The death of Joyce automatically
annulled murder Indictment tha1
stood for four years. Joyce also was
wanted in Chicago in connection with
the robbery of the Illinois Loan Bank
last August. With four other crinl-
nails he escaped from the Toledo Jali
last Christmas, after a deputy had
been shot and the jailers imprisoned
Harry Stone, another of the captured
bandits has served several prison
terms, and only recently was released
from the Leavenworth penltentlarS.
The fourth man captured refused 10
reveal his identity. and ponce early
today had been unable to identity MIN.
Joyce an Escaped Prisoner.
TOLEDO. Ohio, October 22.-That
Albert Joyce, alias Howard, alias
Johnson, who was killed in battle
at Bedford near Cleveland, was one
of four men who escaped from the
county Jail here last Christmas morn
ing. was declared by police here after
receiving from Cleveland description
of the bandit. Joyce, d. W. west, Al
bert Loesch and Leo Mitchell were
the four who escaped. Joyce was
awaiting sentence for post office
robbery, West had been convicted of
murder and sentenced to twenty years
in the Ohio penitentiary. Loesch was
an alleged silk thief and Mitchell
safeblower. according to the police
recordA
The killing of Joyce accounts for the
last of four escaped convlcts, the
police say. West and Mitchell are un-
der arrest at Oshkosh, Wis, having
been caught in bank robbery about
three weeks ago. Loesch was killed
in the railroad yards at Butler. Ind.
by railroad detectives who are said
to have caught him in the act of
breaking into a freight car.