Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1930, Page 26

GANG LEADER SLAIN TRYING 10 ESCAPE rank E. Smith Was Accused - of Series of Hold-ups on West Coast. By the Associated Press. OAELAND, Calif., December with a Jong criminal record, identi- | by a Southern Pacific train of -&m at Nobel November 9, was trap- ped by 10 officers in his Oakland home and shot to death when he to escape from them. ‘The asserted bandit chieftain was | E. Smith, allas Frank Ellis, alias | A. Harris, allias William Z. Smith. ice sald the Nobel robbery was only of a long series of hold-ups engi- by Smith from Vancouver, B. C., 10, Calif. was arrested as he stepped bath in his home here. Offi- FETRITEL mgéig ter they probably would have shoot it out, as the house was lr arsenal with loaded weapons | tegic points in all of the rooms. Smith's wife, known as Evelyn Ellis, who was arrestzd with him, was iden- 3 5 robberies attributed to the gang. 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