New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1918, Page 5

i\ NEW BRIT..IM BANK ROBBERS KILL THO, STEAL §13,000 Brooklyn Has Real, 01d Fashioned Western Hold-up [ quarters | said “breezy Western air” was pronounc- cd, the witnesses agreed. His companion was described as a “little” man, about five feet, five inches tall, 140 pounds in weight. He was of Scandmavian type, they said, with ligh hair and blue eves. He wore i black fedora hat and dark blue suit, a dark blue overcoat with a belt across the back. One man was detained as a mater- ial witness in Brooklyn Police Head- ast night. He described himself as George H. McCullough and he drove the Black and White | taxicab which brought the men to the New York, Dec. 14.—In the sensational bank rohbery New York has witnessed ia decades, carried out most with all the cool deliberation of men long experienced in crime, two em- ployes of the East Braoklyn Savings bapk, at Myrtle and Franklin ave- 988, Brooklyn, lost their lives yes verday afternoon. The Dead. Peal, DeWitt Clinton, paying teller of the bank: died instantly of bullet wounds in his chest. Coond, Henry W., assistant treas- urer; dted at a quarter after six o'cloek last night in the Willlams- burg hospital of wounds in the stamach. Two men were concerned in this like daylight robbery in wild west tyle. They escaped in a waiting tax- icab, taking with them $13,112.85 in| cash and cheques. They obtained the | booty after the double murder only | when the smaller of the two bandits dived through a window 14 inches high and three feet long in order to ot inside the cages where the money wag Kept. Mr. Peal bad a loaded revolver in | is cage and almost at his hand, but he was killed before he had an op- portunity to use it. A third victim of the bandits was Detective Alfred Doody, 33 years old, of 1938 East Nineteenth street, Flat- bush, who is attached to the Teath inspection district at police headquar- s, Brooklyn. He was waiting for a car at the corner when he heard the shots inside the bank. Just as he ar- rived at the door the robbers walked out. One wheeled on him and fired, fraetured his left arm as he sought to iatercept them. Ten persons inside the bank, em- ployes or depositors, were witnesses of the murder and robbery, being held at bay by the drawn revolvers and the fear of a similar fate. them a detailed description bandits was obtained by The style af dress and the men indicated that westerners. Pescribe Bandit’s “Western Air” One man is described as being about five feet, eight Inches tall and apparently thirty vears old. He was of slight build. ahout 135 weight. He had & smooth face, rud- dy ecomplexion and sandy hair. wore a tan raincoat, cut on military lines. A white muffler partly cealed his chin. He wore a brown fedora hat, that might Leer an army campaign hat. of the the police. demeanor of they were con- light have His From | | pounds in | He | scene of the crime and in which they made their escapc. McCullough sur- rendere at the Hamburg avenue sta- tion about fifty minttes afier the rob- bery. In his cab was $170 which the bandit left as payment. Appear as Depositors. The robbers entered the banlk, wit- nesees say, at twenty minhutes after two o’clock. They resched into their pockets and drew out envelopes, with every appearance that they were or- dinary depositors. The taller bandit walked over to the cage occupied by Mr. Peal, which was just inside the Myrile avenue door and the last of a line of cages paralleling TFranklin avenue, and rurning back two-thirds of the way to the rear of the build- ing. The remaining third of the Franklin avenue wall space is occu- pied by office desks, uncaged and par- titioned off only by a low railing. The shorter man walked up to those of- fices, from which entrance could be made through a wire door into the cages. Mr. Cocns’ desk was the one nearest that door. As if on a signal hoth the robbers drew revolvers. The taller bandit or- dered Mr. Peal to throw up his hands. | The teller hesitated and the order wasg repeated. Before he could com- plv he was shot. The shorter outlaw demanded that Mr. Coons cpen the door ijnto the cages. "The assistant treasurer hesi- iated then started to rise from his desk. Excited by the sound of the ghot from the front of the bank, the other handit did not wait for the vic- tim to rise further, but pulled his trigger .too. Mr. Coons crumpled up across his desk. Midway between Mr. and the teller's cage is an inward bulge in the straight line of cages, marked “New Accounis’ Window". It contaius a small opening, fourteen inches high and three feet wide, through which a signature book can be pushed to the new depositors to sign. The book blocked the opening when the robbers entered. Quick as a flash after he had pulled Coons' desk | the trigger, the shorter slayer sprang toward that ovening, pushed the book off and dived through. He darted through the adjoining cages o the one occupled by Mr. Peal, dragging behind him a bag. In a few seconds he had crammed into the bag all the money he could scoop out of a draw- er he nad opened. Closing the bag, he dived back the same way he came and joined his companion in the doorway" Line Up the Witnesses. Three depositors who were in the bank at the moment were lined up by the taller bandit against the rear of the room, where Miss Genevieve Brady, of No. 690 Lafavette street, was in charge of the bank’s Liberty bonds department. 7The outlaw also covered the six behind the cages. The depositors were Calier Russel of 135 Grenwich S Manhatian; Catherine Reed, of No. 127 Hall S Brooklyn, znd William H. Draxdor of No. 642 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn. Their revolvers still menacing the ten who saw the crime, the two ban- dits walked out of the door, pause for A~ moment to dispose of Detective Doody and ran one block to Kent ave- nue and Myrtle. There their taxi awaited them, its motor running. They drove along Kent avenus, one block to Willoughby avenue, and through Willoughby avenue to what the chauffeur described as the ond elevated’, or the junction of Wil- loughby and Myrtle avenues, which converge near Buchwick avenue, There the men got out and disap- peared, the chauffeur being vnable to tell th2 police which way they went. “There's some money in the cab for you,” they told him, McCullough said when relating his story in the Hamburg avenue station house. Aft- er the men got out he locked for a policemanh, he said, but could not see one. He cruised around until he found a mounted policeman, whom he asked to direct him to the nearest police station. From the station house the police took him to the scene of the crime, whence he was taken to Police Headquarters. The story he told was looked upon by the police as straightforward and worthy of cred- ence. The chauffeur sald he was standing in front of the Hotel Navarre, Sev- enth avonue and Thirty-eighth street, Manhattan, just after one o'clock, when the two men approached him. They Pass Several Banks. “Drive us to ooklyn,” one of them said, and, as an afterthought, “Go over the Manhattan bridge.” On that side the men tcld him, “Drive to the right,” and after he had gone in one direction for a few tlocks one would say, “Now turn to the left.” He drove them. around for twenty minutes in that fashion, he said. Be- ing a stranger in Brcoklyn the chauf- feur did not know the names of the streets .raversed. During that ride several banks were passed, but the men did not seem much interested in them. Once they stopped for a drink but MecCullough could not remember the name of the saloon. Finally, after driving past the East Brooklyn Bank, they ordered him to stop at the Kent avenue corner and wait for them, as they would be back a few minutes later. Hardly had they gone when the chauffeur heard a shot, evidently the one flred at Detective Doody, and saw his fares running to- ward hin. with revolvers drawn. The tall man was then carrving the bag. Jumping into the taxi, both the out- “‘sec- SATURDAY OGS St O DECEMBER SRS S - Ry SRR 8 DO YOU KNOW THE BEAUTY ...D CHARM of the OLD CHRISTMAS CAROLS? Come and Hear Them at THE SCUTH CHURCH VESPERS. 4:30 P. Program For Sunday, December 15. ORGAN Prelude—CHRISTMAS e . Interlude—HOLY NIGHT ..... Interiude—MARCH OF MAGIT Postiude—HALLELUJAH Dethier Malling Dubois Beethoven Carol—JOYF UL Carol—CAROL OY Carol—CHR . Carol—HAVE YE HEARD? . SONG FLOWERS Ola French Traditional 14th Century Traditional TMAS SON Brief Address WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THE TURK 2 A Sincere Welcome laws thrust their revolvers into Me- Cullough’s back, he related, and or dered him to ‘“drive through ther indicating Kent avenue. At the next corner they turned him into Wil- loughby avenue, still menacing him with their weapous. While McCullotigh was telling his story policemen inspected his vehicle and found inside on the seat the money that the bandits had left— §170. He appeared to be about twenty- threo years old, with dark eves and pale complexion. His address was not learned. Have your dellars ready.—advt. EASTERN STAR ELECTS. Mrs. Alta Mason New Worthy Matron —Class Initiation. { Martha chapter, O. E. 8. held its annual election recently and the fol- lowing officers were elected: Worthy matron—NMrs, Alta Mason. Worthy patron—Skidmore Seaman Assoclated matron—Mrs. George Schmidt. Treasurer—Mrs. Jennie Goddard. Conductress—Mrs. Julia Norton. 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