The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-02-23
H0LDUP TAXI,
Get $4,000
Bandits Rob Bank Messengers
on Busy New York Street.
ESCAPE IN AN AUTOMOBILE
Men with Money Decentralization
Forced at Pistols Point to Drive
Ten Blocks Past Three Patrol
men-Police Are Puzzled.

New York.-The most daring and
remarkable robbery the city has
known in years was accomplished in
| broad daylight on the margin OF tho
! financial district by five automobile
| bandits, who held up a taxicab and
robbed two bank messengers who were
inside OF $25, 900 in So and $40 bills.
The robbers escaped in black tour
| ing car that was waiting for them at
the corner OF Park Place and Church
street, leaving no clew behind them.
After working all day on the case tho
| police confessed that they were puz-
| zled
The money was the property OF the
! East River National Bank, to which in
stitution. at No. $50 Broadway, 1t was
being transferred in the care OF two
messengers. both unarmed, from the
Produce Exchange Bank. at Beaver
street and Broadway
At the bank the two messengers,
Wilbur r. Smith, 6l years old, OF
| Brooklyn, and Frank Woreal, 10 years
| old, OF Paterson, n. j., presented
checks for $25,0OO and received three
| thousand So bills and one thousand $40
| bills, some new and some old. These
| they put into "a brown leather telescope
! bag.
The messengers, with the money.
| got into the taxicab. and the chauffeur,
Geno Mantani, drove away.
In Trinity Place, between Exchange
| Place and Rector street, were hve
men. -Four had no overcoats. Three
OF these wore caps. A fourth wore u
soft slouch hat. The fifth wore
gray cap and well cut brown over
coat
They had been waiting there about
half an hour. When the taXiCab turn
ed the corner the five jumped into the
street and surrounded the taXicab. The
chauffeur came to a stop.
All that followed was in an eyes
| twinklinr, showing with what care the
quintet had studied their parts. One
OF the five jumped on the chaufieur's
seat and stuck a revolver against tho
drivers stomach. Two OF the remain
Ing four threw open the doors of the
taxcab, while the other two jumped
in. The two on the outside then slam
med the doors.
Put on speed and keep going as
fast as you can!" ordered the bandit
on the seat alongside the chauffeur.
The chauffeur aid as he was ordered.
Inside OF the cab the two mes
| = ~
blows on the head with HACKS.
They fought back, but the older man
soon fell in daze to the floor of Nhe
machine. and few more blows OF a
blackjack put the boy hors de combat.
bat.
At Park Place and Church street,
after going ten blocks. passing three
policemen and hundreds of citizens.
Mantani brought the taxicab to a stop,
being ordered to do SO by the man
with the revolver.
There the man on the box Jumped
, from the chaulleur's seat at the same
time that his companions in the taxi
cab opened the doors and jumped out
one of them carrying tho brown bag
with its precious $4,000.
At the corner OF Church street and
Park Place, right Snder the uptown
, IL" station on the north side. was 9
black touring car, with its engine
throbbing, and chauffeur at the
wheel
Into this the robbers leaped. In {
moment the car was speeding nortl