The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-08

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ascr for a big manufacturing firm IN
Brooklyn II. with a good home near Eliza
beth. y. j.. may be released In $4,000
bail this morning after forty-eight hours
in the Raymond street Sail. Brooklyn.
White, who Is % years old. is under
Indictment AS the organizer Of the auto
mobile bandits who attempted 10 com.
init daylight robbery for a prize OF
$500 last summer and missed getting
the money BY inches. White asserts
that Inc had nothing to do with tho
bandit band.
James Francis Clipnin. Whites friend.
tried for this holdup last october and
acquitted. is again accused. out in Los
Angeles Benny Roberts and Bobby
Morse are behind the bars. and here in
New York Thomas II. Daily. a chauf-
feur. has confessed that he took part
In the holdup and has implicated the
others.
III Indictment similar to the one on
which he was tried and freed. Ia a man
situated much like White. lie has held
Jobs at $4,000 n year and has worked
as expert accountant on o ntr3cts at
s25 "A day. He is about Whites age.
Nothing could seem more preposterous
on the face of II than hat either OF
these men should have anything to do
with a daylight attack and robbery
false whiskers, automobile waiting
and all the accessories OF melodrama.
Expect to Prove Conspiracy.
Yet the seventh branch detective
bureau and the brooklyn District At
Z fnrnRv feel g,tra flat eNTN Gan nrnya
that White. Clinnin and the three other
men were repeatedly seen together that
White and tlinn.n were both living be-
yond their means and In serious need OF
ready money that White and Clinnin
planned the robbery that White stayed
away from the scene OF the attack and
that Clinnin drove the car tina,
White was at the Crescent Athletic Clul
at the time OF the deed in order "a
prove an alibi for his friend Cliunin.
ON the other hand White says he
knows nothing of the holdup that Gin.
min was with Elm At the Crescent Attn
letic Gu at the time OF the attack
that the chauffeur whose story lmpli.
Gates them both il a man he never saw
until he met him by chance In tn,
office of the District Attorney.
TIE attempt at robbery was made a
II 80 ~ the morning on August : last
At the factory of the Sackett 4 VII,
helms company IN G~reenpoint. The
comp2uy's cashier and his assistant wer,
just coming in the entrance with q
weeks pay for all hands in A sack
$4,000. when two men. ore with twC
pistols. stopped them. In the struggl.
hat FOLLOWED the elevator man seizeC
the sack of money and carried Il OH
Of danger. Then the robbers fled.
Hat Leads to Chauffeur.
Detective George Conroy OF the Brook
lyn force found a straw hat left by on'
OF the thieves. II Mas marked with th'
initials IT. ~ n" and a been scll
by a firm having half a dozen shops IL
the city. Bu: oS'h Of these shops. ~
found. used Initials Of n different dee!g,
10 mark purchasers hats. So he VA
able 20 find the exact shop that Ina,
sold the stray and the precise man VIII
had sold II.
Thc salesman thought the purchase
vas u chauneur-ves. he remembers,
seeing a license number OF his cap,
Conroy searched the records of I'll,
Secretary OF States Office at Albany ant
found u licensed chauffeur with initial
II. II. D"-Thomas II. Daily. The,
the detective spent several weeks hang
ing about Times Square. where he foun'
that Daily. who is 90 years old and I've
AT 1870 Lexington avenue, NhllHtIttt'
often appeared. He met Daily an
found him so frank and good seeming
that he thought the clue had failed
Then one of the persons who had see
the robbers making their escape wa
partly able to identify Daily
The young chauffeur wac arrested an
indicted He broke down and told
story duplicating White. ClInnin and IN
two men now held in Los Angeles AZ
cording 10 Daily. all Ave of them wen
!. Broadway together n Whit
and Clinnin planned the whole Trims
Daily says that white spoke of needin
:. money and tina, Clinnin was always tel
:. ing what ar easy thing II would be {
stick up a payroll"
| Daily says, and the District Attorne
expects TO be able to prove, that Clinni
borrowed the car from the Brookly
salesman OF "A motor company for whic
Cl;nnln was doing systenatiz'ng an
and accounting work AZ the time. TT
r manufacturers license number visible .
a the time of the robbery was stolen. say
Daily. from "A garage in Fffty-sixt
street. Manhattan. on The night befor
r /. was simply hung over the regula
! number.
n Tells of Meeting In Park.