Tag: bandits

Solon Springs postmaster marks 50 years; Superior boy bandits jailed

Apr. 30—April 26, 1939 Three students winners in city poster contest Winners in three divisions of the American Dental Association’s annual poster contest in Superior were announced Wednesday by a panel of three judges. First-place awards went to Joyce Anderson, Ericsson school fifth grader, in class two; to Clarence Jones, North junior high seventh grader, […]

Police sink suspected San Francisco Bay bandits after seafaring pirates terrorize houseboats, yachts

Suspected seafaring bandits terrorizing San Francisco Bay residents are now landlocked in jail cells. Three suspected maritime burglars accused of breaking into a business on Embarcadero, San Francisco’s iconic east-facing waterfront, were arrested in the Oakland-Alameda Estuary on March 28, Oakland police said. It’s a major step forward for residents living in houseboats and yachts […]

Schoolboy recounts daring escape from bandits

Musa Garba,17, had to slither on the ground like a snake to avoid being detected by his kidnappers as he made his escape through the bush of northern Nigeria. Earlier, camouflaged by his school uniform, the teenager had managed to hide in a heap of cut grass as the group of schoolchildren he was abducted […]