The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-11
THREE POLICEMEN
KILLED in FIGHT
WITH BANDIT BAND
Five Others Are Wounded in
Attempt to Capture Men
Staging Hold Up.
POLICE AND SHERIFF
ROUNDING UP SUSPECTS
Every Suspicious Person in City
Is Being Questioned as to
Whereabouts.
(ev The AssocIated Pressl

MEMPHIS, Aug. 10.--Police ands sher-
ifs deputies of half a dozen Mississippi,
Arkansas and Tennessee counties were
searching tonight for members of ban
dit band whose attempt to rob an en-
ploye of the Ford Motor company of pay
roll funds amounting to S8,59o-thwarted
by the wit of Edward McHenry, clerk in
scharge of the money-resulted in the
death of three policemen and the wound
ing of five other men while the Memphis
police combed the city for men suspected
Of implication in the hold-up.
Several men were brought to police
headquarters early tonight for question:
ing. The police declined to say, however.
whether any definite information had
been obtained as to the identity of the
men who took part in the hold-up which
occurred at the entrance to the assem-
bling plant of the company in a busy in
dustrial section, shortly before noon.
Those killed were Vincent Lucarini, a
police lieutenant, Howard L. Gamble, an
employe of the Ford Motor company, dep
utized as a special officer, and Polk A..
Earraway, patrolman.
Carraway and Gamble were shot to
death by the bandits when McHenry
leaped from an automobile in which he
was returning from a bank with the two
officers as a guard, after four men,
masked and armed with pistols and shot
guns. drove alongside his car aad de-
manded the money. McHenty stumbled
as he jumped from the car and escaped
the voI1ey of shots fired by the bandits.
Regainnig his feet he darted into the
company's office with the money.
w. E. Harris, another policeman, was
slightly injured. The bandits escaped in
their automobile.
ed wnen posse at Collierville, a suburb,
fired on police car, mistaking it for the
automobile in which the bandits were re-
ported en- route to town. Both the ban
dts car and the police car were of the
same make, it was stated, and according
to members of the posse, the latter failed
to obey a command to stop.
Joseph Robilio, Edward L. Hockinger
and G. L. Bonds, the latter a policeman.
who were riding in the police car, also
were wounded. IToclzinger was struck in
the head by bullet and was reported in
a critical condition. Robilio received the
charge from shot gun in his shoulder
and forearm and a scalp wound.
Five men are held by the police late
tonight in connection with the holdup of
the payroll automobile of the Ford Motor
company by bandits this morning The
spread over the city by the police and
every suspicious character who cannot
account for his whereabouts during the
day is being questioned by the police.
Police officials stated late tonight that
they had gained some Information regard
ing the identity of the bandits who held
up the pay car, but refused to state
whether they believe any of the men
held were directly connected with the
hold UP and the shooting of the officers.
Morris Irby. deputy sheriff in charge Of
the posse which fired upon the police
car by mistake at Colliersville, said that
he had about Is men with him when the
police car was seen approaching, and
stepped into the road and fired into the
air to stop it. When the car failed to
slow up, the posse fired into it, killing
Lucarini and seriously wounding two Of
the other occupants. He said that there
was nothing to indicate that the car car
ried police, although occupants said that
Lieutenant Lucarini waved his police
uniform cap as the car approached tho
posse.