Raleigh, Nov. 16—A bandit giving his name as “Slim” Anderson of Memphis, Tenn., and Deputy Sheriff Will Mangum were seriously wounded here early this afternoon in a street gun battle following a daylight robbery of King and Holding clothing store of $108 in cash.
Both men were rushed to Rex Hospital where the bandit died within a short time. Mangum has a better chance, being shot through the stomach.
Reports from the hospital operating room were that Mangum would be operated on tonight.
Bandit Opens Fire
Pedestrians were sent scurrying from the path of the fleeing bandit.
“I’ll get somebody,” he is reported as saying just before he dived to shelter in the cellar.
A large crowd gathered about the entrance. Mangum was greeting with a volley just before he entered but was able to return the bandit’s fire.
May be Ex-Convict
The bandit entered the clothing store and tried on several suits. He waited until the store was empty except for three people, when suddenly he brandished an automatic demanding: “Hands up!”
He rifled the cash register and fled.
Employes described the man as being a tall man of slender build and very well dressed. He left his old clothes in the store.
The man is thought to be an ex-convict, and officials from the State Prison were seeking to identify him Monday afternoon.
Another fugitive was seen to escape across Nash Square while the shooting was in progress.
“You all have got me; let me out for I’ll get one of you before I go,” said the bandit to Deputy Will Mangum as the officer covered him with his gun.
Officers Fire
Before Mangum could reply, the stranger began firing, and simultaneously the pistols of Mangum and policeman Saunders, Pearce and Gattis began barking. Mangum was struck in the stomach, but the others were not hurt.
Fires at Boys
The first intimation that the stranger was desperate came during the chase from the clothing store and the place where the man was cornered. He fired at James Briggs Jr. and Cleveland Gill, two young men chasing him, as he tried to take refuge behind the new Professions building at Hargett and McDowell streets. The shots went wild, and the younger men continued to chase the stranger.
Tyree Poole joined in the chase as the man went under the house and went into the cellar, but the stranger did not harm him. The officers appeared on the scene shortly afterward, with the shooting coming as the climax to the chase.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1925
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