Needham, Massachusetts, February 2, 1934.

One policeman was slain, three other men shot, and $10,000 stolen from the Needham Trust Company today by four bandits, two of them armed with what bank employees described

as submachine guns. Forbes McLeod, policeman, shot through the stomach as he answered the bank's

burglar alarm, died shortly afterward in the Glover Hospital. They came into the bank just after we had

opened for business, said Miss

Elizabeth Kimball, secretary. There were four of them, dark, foreign-appearing men. Two had what

looked like solid-off machine guns, and two others had pistols. There were eleven of us in the bank,

but no customers. Mr. Bartholomew didn't make a move, but they shot him just the same,

as if they wanted to show that they meant business. We were forced to stand with our hands up at our

desk, while Reardon had to hand over the money, a little more than $10,000, I think. Mrs. Martin E. Gakin,

a bookkeeper, managed to sound the alarm bell, and as the bandits backed out taking mackintosh and reardon with him forge mccloud one of the policemen came running toward the bank and they shot him down

mackintosh said that after being forced to stand on the running board of the car for a mile or two,

he was pulled inside the car as it drew near Needham Heights. A short distance away,

the bandits pushed him from the vehicle. At the hospital, Haddock and Coughlin were described in serious condition. The names of both men were put on the dangerous list. Haddock had been notified at the

fire station of the likelihood that the bandits would pass there, and as the car tore down the road,

he opened fire only to fall wounded as they returned the shots. From Boston came word that General Daniel

Needham, State Commissioner of Public Safety, and as such,

Commander of the State Police, had taken personal charge of the State Police investigation.

The General told Newspapermen he believed the machine guns used in the holdup might have been some of those stolen from the State Police's exhibition at the Boston Auto Show early last

Saturday morning. A state police warning flashed throughout the east described the bandit's car as a

large black automobile of expensive make. It was reported headed toward Providence, Rhode Island,

but there are many sparsely settled districts between this town and the Rhode Island line.

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