Title supplied by cataloger. A trio of bandits - two men and a fashionably dressed woman - forced their way into the home of wealthy garment manufacturer Armandin A. Normandin (pictured), located at 1939 Wellington Road in Arlington Heights, and made off with several cases of wine and champagne. Upon opening the front door, 19-year-old maid Florence Cruz, who worked for Mrs. Normandin, was backed into the hallway at gunpoint and knocked to the floor, where the bandits placed a chloroform-soaked rag over her face. The trio then proceeded to remove the stock of valuables from Armandin's early-Prohibition-era cellar into their automobile waiting in the driveway. The robbers, afraid to linger too long, abandoned five cases of champagne, which they had brought up from the cellar near the opened cellar window. Miss Cruz was taken to the hospital and recovered from the anesthesia without any side effects. The Normandins are believed to have ties to the Bank of Italy. Photograph dated June 11, 1934.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Victims of crimes--California--Los Angeles Businessmen--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Portrait photographs
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