The sun., 1918-12-14
BANDITS ROB BANK
IN BROOKLYN; KILL 2
Continued from First Page.

Continued from Frst rage.
In the taxicab were found two hats,
a raincoat and while silk nuffler.
Certainly 1t Is not extravagant To
write that the annals of crime in
New York do not reveal q holder
wickeder deed. The invasion in broad
Naylight of bank located in a
populous, stirring section, the easy
and unhurried bearing and methods OF
the killers, the swift and cold blooded
murder OF two men who failed to
raise their hands at the word OF COM
mand, the robbery Of the teller's desk
in the plain sight and presence Of
twenty persons, customers and staff;
the deliberate retreat, with its deadly
menace to anybody Offering interior
ence; the fight eastward, after pur-
suit by the banks treasurer, David
Morehouse; the instant pistolling OF
police officer who tried to interfere
and the escape with more than $4,000
supply the pattern Of a criminal ex-
plot SO amazingly desperate that
were it to be heard upon the melo-
slrama stage or seen upon the mo-
ton picture screen would evoke
chuckles OF derision.
Came Ont of Manhattan.
That it should happen in Brooklyn
staid, respectable Brooklyn (by tradi-
ton at least) and to a bank so sit
uated as is the East Brooklyn Savings
Bank are facts so remarkable as to be
grotesque. 1t was. however. n crime
which came out of Manhattan SEEM
ingly, committed by men who cannot
be assumed to be local bandits, since
one threw off the impression of being
or having been a soldier with a mid
die West accent.
1t was noted by men whose senses
were painfully acute that the tall
killer spoke with a twang that con-
trolled a Scandinavian twist of Eng
lish and that the smaller also had
the twang and drawl. But who they
were is still blank guesswork. while
such n search is being made for them
as has not stirred the Police Depart
ment in years.
The first episode originated in
front Of the Hotel Navarro, at Seventh
avenue and Thirty eighth street, Man
haitian. George ii. Mccullough. driver
for the Black and White Taxicab Com
pany, which has a stand at the Ma
varre. was waiting for a fare at
about l L. NJ, when the tall man
and the short man approached him
and asked him If his car were free.
He said yes. and they told him they
wanted to go to Brooklyn. He asked
what address they wanted, and the
tall man replied that there were sew
eral. They would tell him exactly
when they got across the bridge.
Mccullough, who Is 90, a slightly
built, good looking lad with a face
which may have been unusually pale
last night as he sat under questioning
in the bank itself, with short. black
hair eyes that are either dark blue or
dark hazel and head which seems
unusually broad at the forehead and
unusually narrow at the chin, was
puzzled about the commission.
Hindsight or otherwise he wondered
about these customers, he says, noting
too that they were remarkably polite
in their attitude and talk. That curl
GUS fact was noted all through the run
ofothe tragedy. Treasurer Morehouse
noted it with a gun staring him in the
face. Albert Freeman, assistant pay
ing teller marked II as he heard the
words spoken that signalled the death
of Peal, Throw up your hands"
softly spoken words a command with
out a trace of real threatening or
apparent menace.
Miss Gencvieve Brady. Liberty Loan
ola
view of the savage raid as she chung
To her chair too unnervcd to run for
the door, observed this lcthal courtesy.
Others found it rising to the surface
OF their recolections hours after the
deadly thing had been done.
Mccullough drove them as ordered.
going south in Manhattan by Seventh
avenue, Thirtyfourth street, Fifth
avenue and so eastward and south
ward to the Manhattan Bridge. Once
over the bridge he asked for further
instructions and was told to keep GO
ing. Just move along" said the tall
man quietly. "well tell you later"
The taxi turned into Myrtle avenue
and the tall man directed Mccullough
to stop at corner saloon.
The passengers went in and had
Il drink, Mccullough declining, ana
were back in a few minutes They
went along Myrtle avenue until they
came to Kent avenue, where McCul-
Tough was ordered 10 pull up at the
southeast curb The passengers
alighted in tho manner of men who
had no particular business and lots of
time to do IL in.
We'll be gone only few minutes
said the tall one.
Mccullough watched them, as has
been told, until they entered the bank
at the corner block to tho west, when
his attention was diverted.
Old. Conservative hank.
The bank. organized in 1861, the day
Beauregard turned his cannon against
the American flag in Charleston har-
Dor, is an institution regarded with
particular favor in eastern Brooklyn.
II is old and solid and conservative.
1t is managed by agreeable people.
II has enjoyed uninterrupted pros
perity of the correct sort. The homo
it has filled for these fifty-seven years
was once a mansion OF the too familiar
''Noh anu uSlS ~ ptt Itu bllChi square
rs barn, somewhat dismal in all of
Its outer aspects.
Eugene F. Barnes is its president
and the other officers are John II.
Ireland. vice-prcsident; william A.
Graham, second vice president; David
MOrehouss, treasurer Henry w.
Coons zone of the murdered oniclals),
assistant treasurer, and in addition to