The sun., 1918-12-21
BANK HOLDUP LAID
TO WESTERN BANDIT
Photograph of Noted Crook
Identified as "Tall Man"
Who Did Shooting.
MORE ARRESTS DUE SOON
Lahey, Leading Hunt, Believes
Pair in Brooklyn Robbery
Are Hiding in City.

Deputy Police Commissioner Will
lam J. Lahey. suddenly abandoning
three weeks vacation, took charge yes
terday Of the East Brooklyn Savings
Bank murder and robbery case and
apparently galvanized the detective
force into productive Investigators.
| For the first time in a week'there were
important, hopeful developments.
! Lahey told his men in Brooklyn and
Manhattan that the case simply had
! to be solved, that hard work had to be
done continuously and that no excuses
would be accepted for failure. The re-
suit, within twenty-four hours, was
the Identification, accurate or mis-
taken. of Roy Tyler. a bank crook Of
familiar infamy, as the tall man who
commanded the raid on the savings
bank and who pistolled the two tellers
that refused to throw up their hands.
| Five persons inspected two photo
| graphs Of Tyler, whose home is in Bay
| City, Mich, and stated more or less
positively that he was the tall bandit
One of these was Detective Albert
| Doody, who was shot down in the
street when he attempted to stop the
| taxicab that was rushing away with
the bandits and their $4,000 loot.
Doody was so close to the taxi that he
thinks he is able to say that the tall
man who shot him was Tyler. Other
identifications, so-called, were made by
a saloonkeeper restaurant keeper
Savings Bank.
| TyIer's Record in Cleveland.
The police OF Cleveland. Ohio, re-
ported last night that Roy Tyler was
the leader of the band That robbed the
Garfield Savings and Trust Company
of that city OF $4,000 a year ago.
Tyler is the only one OF the five men
taking part in that crime who is at
large.
AS regards the short robber the
police have no infounation-or at least
no information to give to the public.
They think he Is an Italian with
criminal record who lived in the neigh
borhood OF the bank and who had
taken part with Tyler in other crini-
nal exploits. They haze linked the two
in an odd way, a way that may bring
about the arrest Of both. Both tall
man and short man have the habit of
taking a drink OF whiskey after drink
OF beer A few minutes before they
went to the bank a week ago yesterday
they entered a saloon ten blocks from
the bank and had a drink, The pro-
prietor observed with some curiosity
that each drank n glass OF beer and
then took a whiskey chaser. Even in
his long experience this was curious
proceeding, the custom OF such as
have no use whatever for water being
to take whiskey and then beer.
After the pair robbed the bank, leav-
ing two victims, they fed, as is re
called in a taxicab driven by George
Mccullough, now under indictment in
Brooklyn for murder in the first de-
gree. Mccullough let them out at the
steps OF an elevated station in Broad
way, Brooklyn, saw them go up the
steps and then surrendered in a hurry.
Soon after, the two refugees appeared
in saloon in Greenpoint and called
Cor their favorite drink-beer, followed
by whiskey. Subsequently, they reached
Canarsie. got rid OF the bag in which
they had stuffed the stolen bills and
checks and then dropped out Of sight
Commissioner Lahey is inclined to
, think that they are hiding in or very
near New York city and the detectives
are working on that theory.
Lahey, after working all day, came
TO the conclusion that the robbers had
an accomplice in the ne!ghborhood OF
the bank. one that had kept them
posted, perhaps for days, on the Gus
toms OF the ba1k pecple-the unsus
picious ettitude OF the employees, the
habit Of the one Waterman to leave
. the bank on Friday afternoons, the
quietest hour Of business, and other
details that had to be known in ad-
vance. He believes too that the rob-
bers had a room in the neighborhood
, of the bank and that they started from
Manhattan for the purpose OF creating
the impression that they were Man.
haitian crooks.
D More Developments.
. The Commissioner plainly intimatet
another arrest or two may come about
within a few hours. He accuses Nc,
Cullough, the chauffeur, of completely
: pointing out that Mccullough waited
mt two saloons while fls fares hat
I drinks and yet never asked for hi.
y fare; that he waited on the corner q
l Myrtle and Kent avenues without frs
: asldng for his fare; that he kept hi,
engine running while the two me7
were absent: that he turned his cal
in exactly the right direction and pc.
slton for a rapid escape, and that wher
Doody, the detective. summoned hin
to stop ne increased speed. although
he had chance to stall his engine anc
leap to the roadway while the tall ban
dit was shooting nj Doody.
The Deputy Commissioner said tn
h police at work on the Brooklyn banl
e. robbery have no interest in the maj
60 and woman arrested on Thursday nigh
= at Atlantic city by agents OF the De
p partment OF Justice. These are STE
n phen NJ. Curry. formerly an acen
1 here for the Prudential Life Insuraur
% Company. and Mrs. Maud Rolcl
). Lahey a'ded the first he had heard o
?. tho statement that the prisoners a
f Atlantic City "kncw something" abou
the Brooklyn bank robbery was wheI
a he read 1t in the newspapers, and tina
n no further information had come I
Y him