The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-01
NAB THREE AT BANK
AS$15O,O00 THIEVES
Detectives Say Trio Tried to
"Fish" Money From Tcller's
Window With Cane.
CHASED IN MOTOR CAR
Accused of Long List Of Postal
and Store RObbcries in
Eastern States.

Three men who travelled in their own
motor cars and drank lavishly OF Broad
way life we're arrested yesterday. charged
with trying to rob the Colonial Bank at
Eighty-hrst street and Columbus avenue.
Detectives say they saw one OF the trio
push a hooked cane into the tellers win
dow in an attempt to attach a portion u
the $4,000 that happened to be lying
there
They were scared away when the teller
turned toward the window. and LETT In
hurry to visit the New Netherland
Bank at Al West Thirty-fourth street.
where the detectives decided to arrest
them while the arrest,ng was good. Pre-
viously they had visited the Gotham
National Bank.
Back Of the three fruitless visits
which the prisoners paid to New YORK
banks yesterday. the police. Pinkerton
detectives and post office inspectors say,
there stretches a long string of rob
her,es committed BY these men, amount
ing to between SlOo.o0o and $4,000.
At Police Headquarters rwo of the three
were identified as having been the
jostlers among the throng In the pime
Savings Bank Of Brooklyn OF February
Q, the day that the bank was robhed q!
| SIC, 900 through the teller's window, and
as having been the men who robbed pos.
tai sub-stations Of $500 OF four oc'
casions.
Names aud Aliases.
The three prisoners, as they gave their
| names to the police and as the police
| In turn gave their aliases. are William
| Elliott, alias Evans, alias Splly. q
| machinst. - years old, living AT ths
I Hotel Endicott: Charles Hoffman, alias
Letherman, clerk. % years old. OF 3ot
| wes, Fort" eighth street. and William
Clark. alias Downey. alias Dude. q
! years old, of $40 Riverside Drive.
! Further historical Items furnished b!
| the police are that Elliott got out %
the Elmira Reformatory in Sepisnbe'
! after having se"y,d a sentence for lar
csny and that he bought an AUTOMOBILE
! two months later. ON November 10. JUS
| five DAYS after tn. Bronx Borough Bank
! at 4i0 fremont avenue, had been rUbhe'
! of $1,000. also thar Clark not only hae
I his own automobile but that his WIFE
pretty young blond with plenty o
| Jewels. had machine OF her own t'
! carry her to and from their expensive
; apartmen; nu tn. twelfth hoor OF ti'
! Riverside Drive.
! pink-rton operatives got oi the frai
| OF tn. thre" men several weeks ago
/ having been called into the case by th'
Post bftic. Department and BY banks II
/ other cities. Later Inspector cray nae
, Detectives Barron and baly look
ing INTO the bank robheries In New York
I \ few days ago the forces combined to
grther with assistance from the Burn
Detective Agency, and The l'lnkerton'
told the New York police that the de
te,'tives would have to ride in au'omo
b!es If they wanted to follow tn" banl
robherS.
James E'inan and Joseph Reilly o
| the Fourth Branch wer. put upon tn
case, for one reason becaus" Finan own
his own machine. and the detective
followed Elliott. Hoffman and Clark t
restaurants and roadhouses and ornst
apartment HOUSES. Night before las
the chase took them to the boxing mattel
at Madison Square Garden.
Thus II was that AZ \ \. NJ ysster1a!
Detectives Finan and Reilly and Pin
kertun Operatives Graham, Grogan au'
Schweitzer took ny the motoring chas
at broadway and Eiehtleth street, as |
was in a garage near there that Elliot
kept his car