Box P78 -- Folder: Boyd, D-F
Newscopy: "A robbery suspect got the drop on a policeman in the Mission District early today and tried to gun him down with an old-fashioned, twin-barrel derringer. But as he hastily slapped the hammer back to cock his weapon, in the gun-fighting style of a century ago, his hand slipped. THE SPLIT - SECOND hestitation gave the police man time to shoot the gun out of his hand. 'I surrender,' the suspect gasped. 'I'm shot.' Police said he identified himself as Robert Edward McLane, 28, an auto mechanic, and admitted he was wanted for armed robberies in Phoenix and Los Angeles. THE FAST life-or-death action began at 12:03 a.m. as Patrolmen Robert Quinn, 34, and Dale Boyd, 25, cruised near 22nd and Bartlett sts."
