New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-22
SHABBY PAIR TIE
J BANK CLERKS;
GET SITS CASH
With Drawn Guns Raid
Bloomfield Institution
Escape Unhindered.
EMPLOYEES SHOUT
ALARM FROM ROOF
News Starts Run, but DepOSitors
Fears Are Allayed-Finger
Print CleW.

Bloomfield, n j.. July 2l.-Two
short, shabby dressed men entered
the Bloomfield Savings Institution
shortly after closing time this after
noon, held up the two remaining EN-
ployes at the revolver point, bound and
gagged them, and departed with S7,7l5
all of the cash in the banks posses
sion.
The street outside the building was
filled with people at the time, but no
one suspected the self-contained pair
who strolled down the rear steps of the
bank and quickly lest themselves in the
crowd. II was not Until Frank J. Hoch-
stuhl, a bookkeeper. and Alexander
Dahl, teller, had wriggled free of
their bonds and rushed to the roof OF
the structure, from which they yelled
an alarm, that any one of the several
hundred persons who saw the robbers
realized what had happened.
In leaving the bank the men had
locked the doors behind them. Police
had to break through a window to
enter. The news of the robbery flew
swiftly, and in an hour the amount
stolen had reached the hundred-thou-
sand mark. People began to crowd the
steps of the bank, demanding that they
be allowed to get their money out be
fore the institution failed. After 1t
was explained to them that the amount
of money taken was small and was
fully covered by insurance, most of
them went home satisfied.
Only part of the funds stolen be-
longed to the bank. OF that $1,000
was sealed in a package and had been
left by DR.. T. Paczkowski for safe
keeping until tomorrow. The robbers
in their haste left a number of well
defined finger prints, which, the police
believe, will make their capture com
paratively simple.
1t was about $3.50 o'clock when the
two men entered the bank. Hochstuhl
and Dahl had just completed counting
the money preparatory to putting 1t in
the safe deposit vault. Each was at
his window when the robbers entered.
Before either of the employees could
realize what had happened he was star
ing into the muzzle of revolver.
Throw up your hands," the robbers
demanded.
Neither man obeyed. Both of them
dived from their stools and scrambled
beneath the shelter of the counter Tor
the door leading to the cellar. The
hold-up men leaped after them and
drove them downstairs at pistol point
open your mouth and off goes the
top of your head" one of them
warned, holding the two revolverss
trained upon his victims while his pal
deity bound them hand and foot with
a piece of clothes line. When DAM
started to object he was hit stunning
blow upon the head and kicked several
l f.n hon n a ?
chiefs were thrust into the mouths of
the trussed-up men and the robbers
went through their pockets, taking the
KEYS TO the money drawers upstairs.
After warning the bank employees not
to move, the men left them and appro-
priated all the money on the fioor
above. They were evidently disap-
pointed ut the smallness of their haul
for they returned to the cellar and
tried to make Hochstuhl and Dahl tell
where the rest of the funds were kept
eve ought to put you ont of busi,
ness, anyway" they said, when told
that this was all the moneS the bank
had on hand. After again warning
their victims not to move if Shey valued
their lives, they slipped out
So thoroughly frightened were Hoch-
stuhl and Dahl that neither was able 10
give detailed description of their as
sailants. One of them. they say, was
about 3 feet inches tall and slight
of build. The other was shorter and
heavier. Both were shabbily dressed
Night before last Charles Lang and
George Lewis, two burglary suspects
escaped from the Montclair Jail. The
police believe that they may have com
mitted the robbery. The detectives are
not inclined to hold to this theory, but
believe that the two robbers came
STRAIGHT here from New York.