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MAN HELD HERE !
CHARGED WITHi
STORE ROBBERY
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Hursch, Arrested by Ju
neau Police, Accused
in Seattle
BULLETIN — SEATTLE, July
10.—Paul Hursch, accused of
(he hold-up and threats to blow
up two Seattle banks while rob- [
bins them, will be brought to
Seattle from Juneau by Detec
tive Virgil Webb, who leaves for
Juneau on Saturday.
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SEATTLE, July 10.—Paul Hursch.1
held in Juneau as a suspect in the
holdups of two banks here, was
charged with robbery in Justice!
William Hoar's court Monday as
state and federal forces puzzled over,
[ which should take jurisdiction in
the case..
The charge in Justice Hoar's
court accused Hursch of the day
light robbery of a Second Avenue
shoe store last September, when
the lone robber cowed three clerks
with a revolver and scooped $50
from the cash register.
In the bank holdups, which net
ted $2,500, the lone bandit—believed
to be Hursch—threatened to drop
bottles of explosives and blow up!
the banks if his demands for cash
were not met.
HURSCH STILL HELD
Paul Thornton Hursch, alleged to
have robbed two Seattle banks of
$2.50, is still in the City Jail here,
although police said that they have
obtained no information from him
relative to the holdup of a shoe
‘tore in Seattle which was men
tioned in an Associated Press dis
patch received by The Empire to
day.
Hursch has not admitted nor de
nied the bank robberies and has
not been questioned about the shoe
store theft. However, city police,
who arrested the man, had reported
previously that he had made
enough admissions to indicate that
he is the man wanted by Seattle
officials.
