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"LONE THUG GETS $207 IN HOLDUP," Kitchener Record. October 16, 1933. Page 11. --- Robs Taxi Driver And Service Station Operator At Hamilton --- HAMILTON, Oct. 16 - Stopped on a lonely road by a bandit, George MacGillivray, a taxi driver, and Harry Milburn, service station operator, were robbed of $207. The auto which MacGillivray was driving was taken by the bandit. The driver and his fare were left on the road.

MacGillivray stopped at the Supertest station for gasoline just as Milburn was closing the place a few minutes before midnight Saturday. Milburn said he was going home, and would ride in the taxi. They drove about a half block when a man stepped from the sidewalk and hailed the machine. He sat in the back seat and asked to be taken to Kenilworth and King streets. As they were nearing the corner he pushed a pistol into MacGillivray's back and told him to drive east. The driver at first thought it was a prank, but when he turned he saw an automatic pistol.

"Make it fast and don't ask any questions, for I want action," the fare commanded. He told Mliburn if he moved he would get a bullet. Constantly covered by the weapon, MacGvray followed the bandit's instructions and finally reached the road running into the Glendale Golf Club grounds. They were told to go up a side road, and after a short drive the gunman ordered both men out of the machine. Holding his revolver in his right hand, he made both men throw up their hands and then backed them to a fence, where he kept them covered and searched their pockets with his left hand. Every cent of cash they had was removed.

"Boy Bandit Uses Toy Gun," Border Cities Star. August 26 1933. Page 3. ---- 15-Year-Old Chatham Lad Robs Londoner On Highway Near Maidstone ---- Taken in Home City After Wild Ride in Car He Had Stolen --- Arrested after a thrilling chase from Maidstone to Chatham, a Chatham juvenile, 15 years old, is alleged by police to have admitted poking a toy revolver into the ribs of a London motorist who had given him a ride, and at the point of the cap pistol to have turned the owner out of the car and driven off with it at a dizzy rate of speed.

IS REMANDED The boy was taken to Sandwich this morning, and remanded in custody until Monday on a charge of robbery armed. He was not asked to elect trial or enter a plea.

The holdup occurred on No. 3 Highway near Maidstone. The arrest was made near the Chatham city limits at the corner of Merritt avenue and Richmond streets by Constables Earl Glover and William Donaldson of the Chatham police, yesterday afternoon Chasing the car practically all the way from Maidstone to Chatham at a rate of from 60 to 65 miles an hour was John O'Neil, Woodslee garage proprietor, who had given chase at the request of traffic officers.

According to Provincial Constable Frank Kelly, of Tilbury, who was in the hunt for the stolen car, and who later went to Chatham to interview the arrested boy, the train of events started at Blenheim when the motor 1st, Capt. Charles Wray, of the London fire department, driving toward Windsor on No. 3 Highway, was asked for a ride by the boy.

ORDERED TO STOP All went well until the motorist and his hitch hiking passenger approached Maidstone. Suddenly the youth is alleged to have pulled the gun. For a time, police say, the driver was instructed by the young bandit to drive on, but in a few minutes the order was given to stop and get out of the car. The youth then departed, leaving the motorist to walk to Maidstone, where police were notified. Before he went, the bay bandit took $4 from Capt. Wray.

The highway police at Maidstone telephoned police throughout the district, and themselves immediately took up the chase. Traffic Officer Gene Raymer told the Woodslee garage proprietor, and he rushed into the hunt.

Notification to be on the look-out was passed on to Chatham police by Provincial Constable Kelly from Tilbury. He was able to tell them the make and license of the car, and that the youth was believed to be armed. Constables Glover and Donaldson hurried to the point where No. 2 Highway enters the city to take up positions awaiting the escaping youth.

It didn't take long for him to ap pear, and not so far behind came Mr.O'Neil.

60 TO 65 MILES AN HOUR "O'Neil told me that he had to travel between 60 and 65 miles an hour to keep the boy in sight," said Constable Kelly.

From Maidstone the youth had driven to Tilbury, and from Tilbury, closely pursued by O'Neil, he had swung south through Stevenson. Thence he took the detour through Merlin and turned north from Merlin to Prairie Siding. He followed the River Road from Prairie Siding through Raleigh township toward Chatham, then cut over to No. 2 Highway to enter the city.

Chatham police, on searching the lad, found a rather ferocious looking hunting knife, but no gun. At that time it was not known that the gun supposed to have been used was not real. Later the boy is said to have admitted having the gun, but declared that it was only a toy. He stated that after the holdup he threw it away, according to police.

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Chicago, IL – A 23-year-old Chicago woman who was legally carrying a concealed weapon was able to defend herself against four armed carjackers who tried to steal her Toyota Corolla on Wednesday night.

The incident occurred at about 2 a.m. on Nov. 22 as the woman was sitting in her car near the corner of 89th Street and Kenwood Avenue in the Calumet Heights neighborhood, WBBM reported.

The woman told responding officers that a black sedan pulled up beside her car and four men got out of it.

Police said the woman said one of the men brandished a gun at her and tried to open her car door, WBBM reported.

The driver of the Toyota they were trying to steal – a 23-year-old woman with a concealed carry permit – pulled out her legally-owned handgun, according to police.

Police said she shot the man who was trying to get into her car in the head, WBBM reported.

Then she ran for her life, according to authorities.

Another of the would-be carjackers opened fire on the 23-year-old woman and shot her in the arm as she fled, WBBM reported.

Police and EMS responded to the scene and the woman was transported to Advocate Trinity Hospital for treatment of her gunshot wound.

Officials said she was in fair condition at the medical center, WBBM reported.

The carjacker that the woman shot was transported to University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition.

But his three partners in crime fled the scene before police arrived and have not yet been arrested, WBBM reported.

At about 2:15 a.m. the same night, a few blocks away from the first shooting scene, police found an unidentified man fatally shot in the passenger seat of a black Kia Rio.

He was transported to Chicago Medical Center and pronounced dead, WBBM reported.