Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-05
BANDITS GET AWAY
WITH MONEYBAGS
Five Unmasked Robbers Seize
$4,000 of Burroughs Pay
Roll Funds.
HUNDREDS VIEW HOlDUP
Guards Fail to Realize What Is
Being Done Until 1t Is
Too Late.
HUNDREDS VIEW HOLDUP

DETROIT. MICH. August 4.-Five unI
masked automobile bandits early this
afternoon held up an automobile in
which S50,00o payroll money was
being taken to the plant of the Bur-
roughs Adding Machine Company. and
before astonished guards could offer
resistance snatched five bags of six
in the car. said to have contained S33.-
600 or $4,000. and escaped.
The holdup occurred on Burroughs
Avenue. between Woodward and Cass
Avenues. in view OF hundreds of en-
ployees of nearby automobile facto-
ries and the usual afternoon throngs
on Woodward Avenue.
Rudolph Cooper. Burroughs guard
was shot through the thigh and struck
on the head with the butt of pistol
when he tried to intercept the rob-
bers.
Witnesses declared that the five
bandits apparently ranged in age
from eighteen to sixty years Of age.
NO one. however, seemed able to give
good description They were armed
with rifles and automatic pistols.
GUARDS DIDN'T REALIZE
WHAT WAS BEING DONE
Witnesses of the daring robbery de-
ciared the apparent failure of the pay
car guards to realize what was oc-
curing aided the bandits success One
guard said he thought a motion-picturc
scenario was being staged
Although policemen on motorcycles
and in automobiles were quickly sent
in pursuit OF the bandits. thev had
not been rounded up Tonight. Eleven
machines filled with officers wera
securing the country in every dircc.
ton o,niGht.> after fruitless chase
OF thirty-siN miles Early this even
ing the bandits were believed to have
"eeh cornered about thirty miles north
WEST OF the city, but when officers
closed in the bandits car was not IN
be found.
me amount obtained by the bandits
first placed as hiEh as s.5 ooo ,,,a
to-day was declared by p. G.. Chairman
secretary-treasurer of the Burrourhs
company, to have been between. sS2
ooo and $4,000. 4 car following RI.
one held up. carrying $4,000 wa, not
molested '''
MONEY FOR M-EEI<,s pay
is IN BAGS on FLOOR
RIDING III large motor car with
part of the money for tho wa.l.,s ,a,.
roii IN bags on the floor, Thomas Sbe,-
nan. paymaster of the coun,nv no,
"''hih half block of the plant when
S"'hi iier ear drove alongside and four
men jumped up, demanding surrepd.r
OF the money
'thin TWO minutes after the b,ndi,
car drcw alongside the pay car ,ha
i"Fiher was racing away with tho 6,.a
cash bags '''e n'e
iar as can be learned. not shot
was hred by any of the guards ~ 49,
pay car nor those In n car fol,ov.i,,,
ne guards in the car behind did NO,
rea aiize what was going on. bur. se.;na
cooper run out from the curb ,nd
ehsase one OF the bandits, they sto,n.d
.helr car and ran forward. They vera
matted by the other bandits, who swuno
upoh them with n rifle and pistols
four shots were fired at the guards
VINO hastily retrcated. uninjured.
II was in this volley that n hullet
entered Coopers hip. The man he was
hshlng with then hit him over the
mead with the butt OF his pistol and
Iu"peo into the pay car. His com
panions. in the meantime. had reached
INTO the car and seized the five bags.
lhey dashed out Second Avenue and
headed for the country.
MANY TOWNS REPORT
BANDITS
Reports received late tonight from
different towns and villages in coun-
ties surrounding Detroit told of small
automobiles OF the type used hy the
nandlis racing through those places at
nigh speed. Each report expressed the
belief that the car seen was that of
the Detroit holdup men, and started
That the pursuit had been promptly
picked up.
Unusual precautions are taken by the
burroughs Company to prevent just
Sach occurrences. AS the pay cars
proceed from the bank guards are
picked up.
The Burroughs plant is located in the
northern section of Detroit. about two
and one-half miles from the downtown
business district. About three squares
away is one of Dctroit's most cxclu-
sive residence sections.