Evening star., 1934-05-25
Two Policemen Are Slain
in Hating Suspected Dill
Iinger Automobile.
GUNMAN is SHOT DOWN
IN ATTEMPTED HOLD-UP
Two Others Seriously Wounded
When Gangsters Are Routed by
Bank Guard Seeking Revenge.
BY the Associated Press.

| by the Associated FreSS.
SOUTH HOLLAND, ILL.,, May 25.-
| One bank robber was killed, two were
| wounded and three were put to flight
| today when they walked into the range
of a bank guard burning to avenge
| the death of his son at the hands of a
gang.
Jacob de Young poured withering
fire from a big game rifle into the
raiding squad of five when it descend
ed on the South Holland Trust &
Savings Bank a few hours after two
policemen had been slain by gangsters
near Gary, not far away.
That ended the raid, and when it
| was all over De Young said:
I'm sorry I didn't kill them all.
They're the same men who killed my
SON."
Walk Into Trap.
The band of five thugs masked with
handkerchiefs, walked into a trap.
The bank was robbed on February 10,
when the bandits found Peter de
Young, 80, taking his fathers place as
guard and killed him outright Since
then the town of 1900, south of Chi
cago, and west Of Gary, had been on
the alert.
Police Chief L. H. Lagestee saw the
carload of bandits cruising past the
bank. He told De Young and Cashier
Milton H. Waterman, and called
Vigilantes. They took up stations out
side the bank, armed with rifles, shot
guns and pistols. The bandits stopped
- i,,e af% Ay,anirr
Three entered, their leader armed
with a sawed-of shotgun. He showed
it at Milton H. and Charles E. Water
man, the cashier and president. re-
spectively. Both dropped to the floor.
Guard Opens Fire.
'I got my guns ready" said De
Young, later. Il waited a second to
see which one I should kill first"
Taking a careful bead, De Young
dropped the bandit leader. A second
robber was climbing a bank partition,
leading to the vaults. De Young picked
him off. The bandits revolver fired,
wild. The third bandit fed.
The vigilantes, one armed with q
big game rife, opened fire at the
fugitive, at mate guarding the door
with a machine gun, and the fifth,
waiting in the car. One collapsed.
His two companions hauled him into
the car by the coat collar and drove
away, the wounded mans leg dan
Cling from the car.
Chief Lagestee believed that the
bandits were the same men who rob-
bed the bank in February. He secuted
early reports that they were Dillinger
followers.
Wounded Youth Found.
A wounded youth dumped In front
of the Jefferson Park Hospital later
gave his name as Isadore Pincus. 90.
He was weak from loss of blood and
attendants said he might die.
Pincus muttered that he had been
shot by Sammy Cohen" in a fight
over girl. The police, however, said
he matched the description of one Of
the bandits, and that he had been
tossed in front of the hospital from a
car similar to that Of the robbers.
Dillinger Suspected.
In East Chicago, where Policeman
William 2. O'Malley was slain jan
uary by a man definitely identified
as John Dillinger. two officers, Mar
tin O'Brien. A, and Lloyd Mulvihill,
/ %. were machine-gunned to death
late last night.
Mulvihill was one Of the score Of
witnesses who identified Dillinger and
John Hamilton as participants in the
hold-up when O'Malley was killed.
There was no clue today to the
identity of the killers. Dillinger, flu
gitive from the Crown Point Jail,
! where he was held for trial for the
murder of O'Malley, was suspected,
but it was only suspicion. The only
two men who might have been able
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