Two Players Wounded As 2 Bandits Hold Up Card Game on Penn St.

Camden Courier-Post, January 11, 1938

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Two Players Wounded As 2 Bandits Hold Up Card Game on Penn St. Robber Fires as Victims Attack Him with Chairs; One Player Reports $487 Loss DUM-DUM BULLET HITS BOTH INJURED Two men were shot and one of them seriously wounded last night in a holdup of a card game in which two masked and armed bandits escaped with more than $600, taken from five players in the game, police said. The robbery was at the home of Samuel Ermelious, 46, and his wife, Mabel, at 725 Penn street. The men shot were Angelo Naglas, 38, of 1110 Langham avenue, a restaurant worker and father of 13 children, and Ross Pandeladis, proprietor of a restaurant at 6846 Market street, Philadelphia. Both were wounded by a single "dum-dum" bullet—soft-nosed and built to spatter in contact with a target—fired from a six-chamber .38 calibre revolver. The gun was recovered at the scene. Man Badly Injured Naglas was reported in dangerous condition at Cooper Hospital from los of blood. A portion of the soft bullet severed large blood vessels in his upper left arm. Pandeladis fled to Philadelphia and was admitted to Jefferson Hospital. The extent of his wounds could not be determined immediately by police. Several business men were in the game and admitted playing poker, according to Detective Sergeant Joseph Carpani. The shot was fired while the group of men in the Penn street house were swinging chairs at the head of one of the bandits. Victims Deny Gambling Naglas, Ermelious and Mrs. Ermelious are restaurant workers. Also victimized in the hold-up were several business men. The hold-up victims said they had dropped in for a sandwich, but later admitted they were playing poker, Carpani said. About midnight, they (Continued on Page 10—Column 2)

Robber Fires as Victims Attack Him with Chairs; One Player Reports $487 Loss

Dum-Dum Bullet Hits Both Injured

Two men were shot and one of them seriously wounded last night in a holdup of a card game in which two masked and armed bandits escaped with more than $600, taken from five players in the game, police said.

The robbery was at the home of Samuel Ermelious, 46, and his wife, Mabel, at 725 Penn street.

The men shot were Angelo Naglas, 38, of 1110 Langham avenue, a restaurant worker and father of 13 children, and Ross Pandeladis, proprietor of a restaurant at 6846 Market street, Philadelphia.

Both were wounded by a single "dum-dum" bullet—soft-nosed and built to spatter in contact with a target—fired from a six-chamber .38 calibre revolver. The gun was recovered at the scene.

Man Badly Injured

Naglas was reported in dangerous condition at Cooper Hospital from los of blood. A portion of the soft bullet severed large blood vessels in his upper left arm.

Pandeladis fled to Philadelphia and was admitted to Jefferson Hospital. The extent of his wounds could not be determined immediately by police.

Several business men were in the game and admitted playing poker, according to Detective Sergeant Joseph Carpani.

The shot was fired while the group of men in the Penn street house were swinging chairs at the head of one of the bandits.

Victims Deny Gambling

Naglas, Ermelious and Mrs. Ermelious are restaurant workers. Also victimized in the hold-up were several business men.

The hold-up victims said they had dropped in for a sandwich, but later admitted they were playing poker, Carpani said. About midnight, they

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