The Detroit times., 1916-08-05

| The most authentic story OF the
robbery obtained by the police IL a.
follows:
The Burroughs pay car. a Packard
machine with a special body. carry.
ing about $4,000 from the North
| Woodward branch OF the Dime Saw
ings bank to the factory, was stopped
by three men who drove alongside
AT Cass and Burroughs-aves.. point
ing shotguns and automatic pistols
at the occupants OF the pay car.
In the pay car were Sheehan, tho
paymaster. Price. the chauffeur and
Kogelschatz, the guard. sheehan
and kogelschatz were armed. The
bandits got the drop" so quickly that
neither had an opportunity TO get his
gun.
Ordered by the bandits to leave the
car under the cover OF the bandits
gun. the three men held up their
hands while one OF the robbers took
| ive OF six trays OF money In the back
OF the pay car. About $4,000 was
taken. The sixth tray was overlook.
ed by the robber.
| Rudolph Cooper, a guard or the
Burroughs Co. hired to protect the
| pay car. was on the sidewalk. He
ran TO the side of the machine and
pressed his automatic pistol 10 one
OF the bandits stomach. His pistol
refused 10 work. however, and the
bandit 1erked II from his hand and
knocked Cooper over the head with
his own gun. Az he fell another OF
the robbers fired a load OF buckshot
into Cooper's right hip.
Az this time Charles Powers. OF
No. BIZ Euclid-ave. west. foreman in
the shipping department. who was
driving another car with two guards,
turned from Woodward-ave. into
Burroughs-ave. Powers with the
two guards leaped from the machine
and ran towards the pay car. The
bandit who was guarding the rear
OF the pay car opened fire on the
three men, firing four shots at them
with a Winchester rife. They stop
ped and held up their hands as or.
dered.
! BY this time the robbers had com.
pleted their task and jumping into
their machine sped away.
That Is the story as the police have
II. II is told differently by several
persons who say they saw the affair.
| One man declared that seven men
were implicated in the robbery. On
being closely questioned IL was found
that he could not tell which were
the robbers and which were the Bur
roughs men.
The police say there might have
been fiNe or even six men but they
only have fairly accurate descrip-
tions OF three Of them. One was an
elderly man wearing a palm beach
suit, white shoes and a straw hat.
The two others were Young men.
poorly clad and unkempt. Descrip-
tions Of any other robbers have not
| been given the police
After leaving the pay car the ban.
dts sped vest on Burroughs TO Sec.
ond-ave.. and turned southwark. Sew.
eral testers for the Cadillac Motor
Car Co. gave chase in their ma.
chimes. The bandits directed a few
shots at the testers as they swung
around into Second-ave., in front OF
the Burroughs plant.
The course OF the bandits car from
there on Is rather vague. The police
support the theory that the robbers
took zig-zag course westward to
Grand Riyer-ave. and drove rapidly
| out OF the city.
When the report OF the robbery
was received in police headquarters
some OF the most rapid and elabor.
ate work ever done In the detective
bureau was executed. Detective Ill
spector Edward Fox and Lieut..
Amos Kunkel, the men who cleared
up the Alpheus Moore mystery, were
in charge
Inspector Fox dispatched every
available man TO the scene OF the
robbery. while Lieut. Kunke, no
tilted police departments in adjon-
Ing towns and cities TO keep a SHARP
eye for the bandits. While this was
being done the switchboard operator
was calling all patrolnen on duty
with the little green lights recently
installed on the patrol boxes. Each
officer was given a general descrir.
ton OF the bandits and their car. and
was given strict orders 10 hold
everyone who looked suspicious.
Detectives and patrolmen who
we're on duty when the report came
worked until late Saturday morning
in an effort 10 get trace OF the
men One Of the handicaps suffered
by the police was the varying stories
and descriptions furnished them
II Is not definitely known yet
wh ether tho robbers are in a Buick
car or Ford. II is thought they
are In Oakland county somewhere
Not long after the robbers were sup
posed 10 have left the city, reports
came from Novi, Mich. IL miles
west on Grand River-ave, that the
bandits passed through there en-
route to South Lyons. This seemed
probable as three railroads cross at
that point and the police thought II
likely they would head for a place
with plenty OF railroad facilities.
Meanwhile. Rudolph Cooper. the
wounded guard. In in Providence
hospital lamenting his fate. He is
regarded "a the hero OF the day.
OF the FIVE or six persons at the
scene Of the robbery. he was the
only one TO give fight.
The failure OF an automatic pis.
toll TO work properly is said 10 be