The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-07

 rying a small black bag.
 "Did you get any more shots inP" asked Larry.
 q fired one more, when I see he wasn't going to fall, and I guess I missed" said Buddy. Then he began squirting machine gun bull lets at me and I ducked. When I got my head up again they were all in the car and it was starting of. fired three more at it."
 He shook his head, as if puzzled by something. T can't understand it." he said. T couldn't miss an auto, at that distance. I know I hit it. But it didn't seem to phaze it. I'd swear I heard a couple of those bullets ricochet of the body. But Lord! A Springfield1l put bul- let through any auto ever made"
 Mot one of those," said Larry. "They probably had an armored car. You'd need an anti-tank gun to make a hole in it. Where'd you think you hit it?"
 Left side, at the rear," said Bud- dy promptly. T didn't have sense enough to aim at the driver. All three guys that come out of the bank jumped in the rear seat, so l just tried to plug 'em, not thinking like"
 Did you hit the glass9"
 "If I did, it didn't splinter any"
 "Then if the bullets made any marks on the finish, they'd probably be on the body, on the left side, near the back?"
 That's right"
 LeRocco and Peters came back in.
 "Got 'em," said LaRocco tri- umphantly. Full hand print right on the glass. Four fingers, perfect; thumb. a little smudgy, but we can use it."
 Swell" said Larry. "Find a photographers shop here in town, get your prints developed, and shoot lem of to Washington right away
 LaRocco hurried out, swinging the black bag. Larry complimented McG Ginnis again and sent him away blushing with pride, and then turn ed to the task Of talking with (it seemed) half the population of the little town, and winnowing theiI stories carefully to extract, here and there, the grain of information that might prove of use. It was midnight when he finally sat down with LaRocco and Peter. to review the evidence. They hae one set of fingerprints which would ultimately, identify positively on, member of the gang. They had { positive Identification of secone gangster as Wingy Lewis. They has 8 somewhat lesser positive identi fication of the third as Red Jacksor himself. They had good presump tive evidence that the job had beer well planned in advance, since tn, wanton shooting of Hobart mad it apparent that the gangsters kney about the tear gas installation ant were getting in the first blow t forestal its use.
 
 | No one had seen which direction the car had come from. It had beer parked facing the north, but n, one, seemingly, had noticed it be fore it reached the bank. Its rout, out of town, as traced from tn, testimony of a dozen excited citi zens, was plainer. The bandits hat driven north block and half, hae turned to the left past the railroae station, had crossed the river by the north bridge, and then hae swung up along the national pike ir a general northwesterly direction. This, however, was not so much help as it might have been. Fol as they collated their telephoniC reports from outlying towns, they found no one who had seen any trace of the car in any of the municipalities lying along the na- tional pike. The car might have by-passed them by 8 careful selec- tion of detours; the gangsters might have headed straight for some nearby hideout (although Larry thought this extremely un- likely): or they might simply have passed through those towns with out having been noticed.
 I've a hunch they used an arm- ored car," said Larry. Ginnis' evidence points that way, although of course it's far from conclusive; but on top of that we have good reason to suspect that they recently acquired one, anyway. If that's the case. they won't abandon the thing anywhere along the way-as they would do if they were using a stolen car--jn order to make 1t
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