After being cornered by police in a Downtown Eastside rooming house, two bank robbers died after choosing to simultaneously shoot each other in the head with their .38-calibre revolvers rather than give themselves up.
Jack Hyslop, 21, and George Lawson, 35, were also wanted for murder after a bank teller was killed in a holdup of the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Powell Street and Victoria Drive a week earlier. Another bank employee was also shot, and two other suspects in the crime had already been arrested.
