New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-15
Driver To Be
Held as Bank
Bandits Aid
Charge of Homicide Will Be
Filed Against Mccullough
in Brooklyn Murder Case
Taxi Starter Is Arrested
Black and White Co. EN-
ploye at Hotel Navarro Is
Accused as an Accessory

A charge of homicide will be filed
against George H. Mccullough, driver
of the Black and White taxi used in the
robbery of the East Brooklyn Savings
Bank on Friday afternoon. District
Attorney Lewis of Kings County an
nounced yesterday afternoon he had
taken charge of the chauffeur early
yesterday morning after the police had
questioned him the greater part of the
night.
Mccullough, the District Attorney
said, will be arraigned in the Adams
Street police court day and a for
NAL charge of homicide placed against
him on the accusation that he was an
accessory to the crime that resulted in
the death of Paying Teller De Witt c.
Peal and Assistant Treasurer Henry
w. Coons and the wounding of Albert
Doody, the detective who tried to stop
the two highwaymen.
II am convinced" said Mr.. Lewis,
'that this man is not telling US all he
knows. His story is indefinite and he
has made various changes in it."
MCOGllOuSu SUN 4HSlotC0 SCoCEANoy
that he had not seen the bandits until
they hired his taxi outside the Hotel
Navarro early Friday afternoon.
Police Have No Clew
At late hour last night the high
waymen were still at large The entire
detective force of the greater city.
under the direction of Acting Police
Commissioner Leach and Inspector
John J. Cray, commanding the de-
tective bureau, is working on the case.
The robbers obtained S13,11285, most
of it banknotes.
John Mulligan, known as Jerry
cab Company at the Hotel Navarro, was
locked up at the Poplar Street police
station last night on a charge Of being
an accessory to the crime of homicide.
Mulligan had been questioned for sew
eral hours in the Office of District At
torney Lewis.
1t is understood he was approached
robbed the East Brooklyn Savings
Bank on Monday last. They inquired
if they could engage a taxi. 1t is re-
ported Mulligan says he saw the same
men Friday afternoon at 1:45 o'clock in
front of the hotel and asked when they
wanted that taxi" to which one re-
piled.
We'll take it now if you'll give US a
good mana fellow who will keep his
mouth shut and keep mum on anything
he sees and hears"
Told Conflicting Story
In District Attorney Lews's office it
was said Mulligan made several con-
ficting statements, and he finally was
ordered under arrest.
David Morehouse, treasurer of the
Brooklyn bank, and other eyewitnesses
of the shooting were taken to the
rogues' galleries in Brooklyn and
Manhattan police headquarters and
shown photographs of notorious Grim
inals.; They. also examined photo
graphs at the headquarters of the
Pinkerton Detective Agency. Inspector
Cray said not a single photograph
has been identified.
Brooklyn detectives, under Captain
Coughlin held to the theory that the
pair fled to Manhattan and are hiding
in a cheap lodging house district.
Thought To Be Still in City
Inspector Cray said he was working
on the belief that the men still are in
the city, although he has wired de-
scriptions of the criminals to nearby
cities. Railroad stations, ferries and
roads are being watched
house o-house canvass of the dis
trct about Hotel Navarro, in Seventh
Avenue, where Mccullough says the
bandits engaged his car, was made yes
terday.
The police are searching for two
men, who according to Inspector Cray,
answer the general description of the
bandits and who registered at Hotel
Navarro Thursday night and checked
out about 1030 o'clock Friday morn
ing.
A tip which indicates that more than
the two men who did the actual shoot
ing figured in the hold-up came to the
police late Yesterday afternoon. 1t was
from the wife of an employee of the
Brooklyn bank, who said she left the
building at Myrtle and Franklin ave
nues a few minutes before the shoot
ing and saw a dark touring car in
Franklin Avenue near the bank
Saw Black Bag Passed
Black and White taxi, she told the
police, drew up close to the touring
car. There were two men in each car,
she said. They talked for few min
utes and then she saw black bag
passed to the men in the taxi from the
The taxi then drove away. heading
west on Myrtle Avenue. This does not
agree with the story told by McCu-
Tough, who insisted the bandits car
ried black bag when they engaged
his taxi at Hotel Navarro. The police
are investigating the woman's story.
George Mccormack, driver of
Williamsburg Hospital ambulance, told
the police that four or five weeks ago
two men resembling the bank robbers
approached him in front of the hos
pitai and asked:
"Do you want to make S500?"
The men said they wanted him to
drive a car for them on "particular
job" Mccormack says he replied he
had no machine.
"Well get you car. That will be