The north Mississippi herald., 1921-08-12
THREE men KILLED
in BOLD HOLD-UP
MEMPHIS BANDITS
Masked Men in Heart of City
Attack Car Containing Clerk
With Payroll of Ford Motor
Company and Two Officers
Clerk Miraculously Escap-
ed With Money.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. 1O.-Po-
lice and sheriff's deputies of half a
dozen Mississippi, Arkansas and
Tennessee counties were searching
tonight for members of bandit band
whose attempt to rob an employe of
the Ford Motor Company of payroll
funds amounting to $8,500-thwart-
ed by the quick wit of Edward Nc
Henry, the clerk in charge of the
money-resulted in the death of
three policemen and the wounding Of
five other men while the Memphis po-
lice combed the city for men suspect
ed of implication in the hold mp, one
of the most spectacular ever attempt
ed here.
Several men were brought to po-
lice hadquart@s early tonight for
questioning. The police declined to
say, however, as to whether any def
mite information had been obtained
as to the identity of the men who
took part in the hold up which oc-
Cured at the entrance to the assemb-
ling plant of the company on Union
avenue, in a busy industrial section,
shortly before noon.
Those killed were Vincent Lucarini
a police lieutenant; Howard L. Gam
BILE, an employe of the Ford company
deputized as a special officer and Polk
A. Carraway, patrolman.
| Carraway and Gamble were shot to
death by the bandits when McHenry
leaped from the automobile in which
he was returning from a bank wita
the money with the two officers as a
guard, after four men, masked and
armed with pistols and shot guns,
drove alongside his car and demanded
the money. McHenry stumbled as he
jumped from the car and escaped the
tvolley of shots fired by the bandits
while Gamble and Carraway were
struck by bullets and fatally wound
ed. Regaining his feet McHenry
darted into an entrance of the plant
and reached the company's Office in
safety with the money intAct.
W. E. Harris, another policeman
was wounded but not seriously. AS
McHenry passed into the company's
plant the men jumped into the auto
mobile and escaped.
Lieut.. Lucarini was fatally wound
ed when a posse at Colliersville, a
suburb, fired on a police car, mistak-
| ing it for the automobile in which the
bandits were reported enroute to that
town. Both the bandit car and the
police automobile were Of the same
make, it was stated, and according to
the members of the posse, the latter
failed to obey a command to stop.
Lucarini was brought to a hospital
here where he died early this after
noon.
Joseph Robilio, Edward L. Hex
niger and C. L. Bonds, the latter a
policeman, who were riding in the
police car, also were wounded.
Heckinger was struck in the head by
bullet and was reported in a critical
charge from a shot gun in his shoul-
ders and forearm and a scalp wound.
None of the others is believed Sc
riously hurt.
Five men are held here by the po-
lice late tonight in connection with
the hold up of the payroll automo-
bile of the Ford Motor Co., by ban
dts this morning. The prisoners
were arrested in a dragnet spread
over the city by police and every
suspicious character who could not
account for his whereabouts during
the day, is being questioned by the
police Police officials tonight state
that they have gained some informa-
ton regarding the identity of the
bandits who held up the pay car but
rfuse to state whether they believe
any of the men held were directly
connected with the hold-up and the
shooting of the officers.
The police department has offered
a reward for the capture of the BAN
dts, and other rewards will probably
be offered tomorrow, it is stated.
The high powered automobile used
by the bandits has been practically
identified as the one stolen from
business man here Monday by four
bandits, as he was assisting the po-
lice patrolling the residence part Of
the city.
Morris Irby, deputy sheriff in
charge of the posse which fired on
the police car by mistake at Golfers
vile, said that he had about 15 men
with him. When the police car was
seen approaching, he said he stepped
into the road and fired into the air
to stop it. When the car failed to
slow up, the posse fired into it, kill
ling Lucarini and seriously wounding
two of the other occupants. He said
there was nothing to indicate that
the car carried police although oc-
cupants said that Lieut.. Lucarini
waved his police uniform cap as the
car approached the posse.