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Two Men and Woman Hold Up Manager Angert———

Robbers Escape Towards New Castle and When Stopped Kill Patrolman.———

Angert and Companion Unable To give Good Description Of Robbers.———Murder followed in the wake of three unmasked bandits, one of them a woman, After they held up the F. II Butler store at 300 North Main Street shortly before noon today, when they shot and killed Corporal Brady Paul, 28, of the New Castle unit state highway patrol, and wounded Private Ernest Moore, 26, of when the officers attempted to halt the car in which they were fleeing about five miles east of New Castle on the Butler-New Castle Road.Corporal Paul was shot in the head by the driver of the car and died soon after he was removed to the Jameson Memorial hospital in New Castle. Private Moore is in the hospital with wounds inflicted by the bandits bullets, but is believed that his condition is not serious.The bandits escaped toward New Castle after firing on the officers after firing on the officers and later abandoned the murder car in New Castle, escaping in a second car which they commandeered. They had not been apprehended at 2 o’clock this afternoon although a statewide dragnet has been thrown out by the police.The bandits looted the store on North Main Street after binding and gagging B.A. (“Wish”) Angert, 28, the manager, and F.F. Altenburg, 73, 315 North Main Street, a customer.One bandit was dressed in a dark overcoat, wore a red mustache, which is believed to have been false, and is about 32 years old. His height is five feet ten, according to Angert.The woman is described by Angert as being slight in build and wearing a dark coat.Angert is unable to describe the third bandit who stood guard outside the store when his confederated entered.The cash register was looted of $150, a wrist watch valued at $50 and $18 in cash was taken from Angert and a pocket book containing $1 was taken from Altenburg.About 11:15, a man and a woman entered the store telling Angert, who was behind the counter, that they wanted some apples from a basket on a rack on the floor. When Angert Walked from behind the counter, the bandits followed him as he stooped over the apples, they thrust two guns against Angert, told him to “shut up” and prodding him with the guns, walked him into a back room of the store.Woman Uses GunWhile the woman covered him with her gun, the man drew two pieces of rope from his pockets, bound Angert’s wrists and ankles, gagged him with a handkerchief and tripping him let him fall to the floor.Leaving the man on guard over the helpless manager, the woman bandit went to the front of the store and had succeeded in rifling the cash register of the $150 when Altenburg entered.Altenburg noticed a heavy-set man standing in front of the store when he entered but paid no attention to him, he said. He walked to the counter and was examining a display of groceries with his back to the woman, when she approached him from the rear caught his arm and pushing her gun into his side, ordered him to the back room.Altenburg complied with the order and followed by the woman bandit, walked into the back room where Angert was writhing on the floor with the second bandit standing over him.Covered by the woman’s gun, Altenburg submitted to a frisking at the hands of the second bandit. The bandit took Altenburg’s pocketbook from an inner pocket of his coat and opened it to examine its contents.“You won’t find anything in that, “ Altenburg protested. “I spent all my money shopping up town.”“Shut up!” the bandit said, threatening the aged man with his gun.Altenburg said nothing more and the bandit placed Altenburg’s pocketbook in a pocket of his overcoat.Then, producing rope and a handkerchief, he bound and gagged Altenburg, dragged him to a corner and dropped him to the floor.The man and the woman signaled through the door into the front room of the store and shortly afterward.