Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1926, Page 11

WHITTEMORE GANG | SYSTEN IS SECRET Was So Perfect, Publication Would Do Enormous Harm, Pecora Asserts. Announces the Presentation of By the Amociated Proes | . L e NEW YORK., March 25. -Secrecy 3 ltS_aS t e are was being maintained by ‘the police ew today regarding a ‘'perfect crime system” which had a_billion-dollar loot throughout the United States as its object. The system was devised by the Whitiemore gang of night club fre-| [i| i K quenters, now in custody. 5. So perfect was the system, as out-| (Il - = /\ A4 ~ ( i lined from two sources among the| | \ srrested men, that Acting Distriet A Attorney Pecora has declined 1o re rm than von conld imag: W done the youth of the e Adopled by us because of the iembers formed. The Whitte- hand was the most highly or- superiority of qualily and effectiveness of style Capture Held Lucky. The system was so failure-proof cora attributed the band's ecapture largely to luck. The band of six men and a woman, known as “the Tiger Girl"” is os- tensibly headed Ly Richard Reese Whittemore of Baltimore, wanted in that city for murder and identified as ane of the zanz which killed twe Ruffale men in a $93,000 hold-up re- "he slaving of &t least one memher wha balked at orders also is artribnted to the gANR. The police Tearned ahoul the system 1 22page confession by Anthony on, Williand 1. Unkleback, the band, re-enacted on the seene the hold-up of twe diamond mer- chants and the theft of $170,000 in zems at Fifth avenue and Forty- eighth street last January I"nkleback said Leon and Jacob Kramer, older members of the gang, closed in on the merchants from the tront. Whitiemore from the side and “Shuffles” Goldberg from the rear. T'nkleback covered a private detective in a nearby doorway. Paladino was assigned 10 shoot a traffic policeman if he started to interfere. Fate Saves Policeman. man happened to be repri- axi driver, and was saved. nts were blackjacked and the gang gone hefore he turned aronnd ©ne man staved at the wheel of the car in which the zang escaped. In Buffalo. gunmen opened fire without a word on an armored car from the Federal Reserve Bank. killed twa men and escaped with $93.000. Philadeiphia anthorities have hegun seareh for $250,000 loot believed hid- den there. They have learned that the “Tiger Girl" often deposited money and fewels in safery deposit vaults in that ciry AUTO HITS POLICEMAN. G. R. Browning of First Precinct Infured in Back and Leg. Policeman G. R. Browning of the firer precinct received injuries to his back and lex when he was struck by an automobile driven by Earl Frisby, eolored, 34 years old, 1800 Thirteenth mtreet, while crossing at Sixteenth and M streets last night. He was treated &t Emergenqy Hospital. Frisby, who s alleged to/ have ignored a red light at the interfection, was arrested and oharged with violation of the trafc law and assault. A fracture of the left lex was suf- fared by Mras. Lottie Hadder, 60 vears nld. 500 H sireet, when struck by a taxicab vesterday afternoon at Fif- teenth and L, streets. She received treatment at Emergency Hospital. Mra. C. 7. Luckett, 61 vears old, 441 Trving street, received slight injuries Iagt night. when knocked down by an Aantnmobile driven by Paul M. Burthe. 134> Randolph street, at Park road and Sixteenth street Severs Injury to her right foot was recelved hy Mrs. Janie Payne, col- ored. 1713 TFifteenth street, when struck by a taxicab backing into the b last night on Sixteenth street. 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