The evening world., 1912-02-15
BANK WRECKED =
WHEN ROBBERS
BLOW BIG SAFE
Hundred Tenants in Elizabeth
Street Building Reused
by the Shock.
ESCAPE CASH.
Finger Prints on Dial Indicate
That Three Men Did
the Job.
ESCAPE CASH.

The safe In Giovanni Maccarrone's
bank at No. &c, Elizabeth street was
blown early to-day. and the robbers
used SO much explosive the whole front
OF the establishment was hurled to the
street. scores OF tenants overhead
were shaken from their beds, and a
panic cnsued In the n~eighborhood. No
money a obtained so far as known.
The burglars were frightened away by
their rumble" as the yeggs express Il.
The principal hopes Of the police for
finding the robbers are based on numer.
Gus nnger-prints on the japanned sur.
face OF the safe and on the combina-
ton dial. Detective O'Gorman, who Is
a fnger-print expert, thought from his
hrst view Of these prints that lie could
get clear Indications Of the character
istics Of ut least three men.
The building is a nve-story tenement.
housing twenty-five families. The en-
trance to the upstairs apartments Is in
the middle OF the ground floor. on the
north side OF the hall Is n. Trenta-
eoste's restaurant, and on the south
side Maccarrone's bank. steamship
once and foreign stamp department.
He has been in business there for
twenty years.
The big safc. six feet high. three feet
vide and two m a half feet thick,
was about ten feet from the front win
dow. Before 1t hung a! electric light.
The policemen on post had orders to
keep a close watch on II. and the bank.
with another a short distance away.
employed Charles Harry, q private
Waterman. to protect their property.
Policeman Crowell says he passed the
bank ten minutes before the explosion
and saw the incandesccnt light burning
In front Of the safe as usual. The pri-
vate Waterman says he passed Ave min
utes before the explosion and that the
safe was - plain to him In the light he
could rszd the figures on the conrbina.
tion.
EXPLOSION WRECKS BANK AND
STARTS PANIC.
But at 2 o'clock there was a roar that
rocked tho whole n~eighborhood. The big
plato glass window went into the street
with a crash. and there was q sound OF
breaking glass from several other build.
ings.
The one hundred or more tenants In
the hous began running through the
halls. down stairs. to the roof and down
the fire escapes ON both sides. In Q few
minutes there vas a similar exodus
from other houses on both sides. Every
body thought = Black Hand bomb had
Jeen set of. and soon there was such
, crowd OF half dressed men, women
md children scurrylng through the
streets that the reserves from the Null.
berry street station were called.
An investigation o! the interior OF the
bank showed wreckage everywhere.
Most OF the front Of the place had been
blown into the street. and fragments Of
the safe were sticking In the wall as II
they had been fired from a canno
There was hardly a whole piece OF fur.
niture left.
There 10 nothing to indicate how many
Of the safe crackers there were. but the
| police are confident they were experts.
They went through the hallway Of the
tenement to a rear door that opened
into an unoccupled rear room belonging
to the bank.
This door was secured by a heavy iron
bar that fastened In a staple. The rob-
bers bored holes in the door. cut out q
chunk OF wood and unfastened the bar.