Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-24
ALLEGED BANDIT
IN Tolls, ESCAPES
Prizes Open Cell in United States
Marshal's Office and
Disappears.
REAPPEARS, BUT VANlSHES
Joe Young. Twenty, Believed One
of Two Men Who Killed
Brooklyn Bankers.

Joe Young. twenty years old. be-
lieved to be one of the two bandits
who killed two men, wounded two
others and escaped with more than
slS.ooo from the East Brooklyn Savings
Bank Brooklyn, y. Y. on Friday, De-
cember 13. was arrested in Richmond
yesterday by Department of Justice
agents. and escaped two hours later
from detention cage in the marshars
Office at the Federal Building.
Twice after his escape Young was
thought TO have been trapped. but sue
ceeded in slipping through the clutches
of score OF Federal and police of
hcials. Early this morning he was
still at large. but known to be some
where in Richmond. and special squads
of detectives and police were searching
the city for him.
BELIEVE YOUNG: AND
WOMAN HAD STOLEN AUTO
Young has been living at the Lex
ington Hotel since last Friday with n
woman who yesterday claimed to be his
wife. Department Of Justice agents
O'Clock in the afternoon on Broad
street. where. il is said. the man was
attempting to dispose of stolen gov
ernment automobile
Young answers the description of the
smaller Of two bandits who robbed the
Brooklyn banking institution. He is
about five feet seven inches tall. of
light complex ion and speaks with a
scandinavian accent.
Department OF Justice agents SAID
tneE were convinced that Young was
the man wanted for the Brooklyn rob-
berry. After the woman was uues-
toned she was allowed to leave and
Young was placed in the detention
cell In the Office of United States Mar
shall j. G. Saunders.
MAKES LEiSURELY EXIT
AFTER OPENING CELL DOOR
He pred open the door to the cell.
quietly passed out into the corridor on
the third floor. got in the elevator and
ieit the building. He escaped between
Immediately sent out through the
various police stations and other
agencies
Instead of returning to her room at
the Lexington Hotel. the young woman
who was with Young when he was ar
rested. disappeared. She had not been
located last night.
shortly after s o'clock the clerk at
the hotel saw Young enter the tele-
phone booth. Authorities were i'm
,mediately notified. but the alleged
ohholt vanished in the meantime.
ESCAPES SECOND TIME:
FROM LEXINGTON HOTEL
Young next appeared on the second
moor or the hotel about IL o'clock He
called the elevator. and when the ne
gro gro operator stonped asked for aid In
poy' Young held out a roll of bi;!s.
Dut the negro slammed the door and
cropped to the first floor, where he
tives and policemen had surrounded
the building. and a thorough search
vas, vas made from top to bottom. but
pleIeiGy HtnG asa,n AIN had disappeared com
through; but it is believed the Youth c
ful bandit eluded the officers bv OHM
the building. u
', Attention was first attracted 10
nouns when il was learned that he
was irving to sell at a bargain price :,
immediatelv h automobile arpns,o; Federal agents
man with him first claimed 70 VIZ" bo
d;nnrss sister. The man told several
names orst stories H and gave different
then Lynch but finally said bir roni
name was Young "a" 'e"'
DEFINITELY ESTABLISH uIu
As ONE OF SUSPECTS
caiion iouhG cs,sn anxiety to escape identih-
the description of the RrooI,,r poH h, up
alts. founs's description tailed Win
,t.;.o ,.a. OF one OF the men. and the an
prh.eS fupibnr stated that they had received
ss,Maplished him as the suspect
men taken into custody Young was
ana art1'eu I'm IN light gray suit. soft hat
iached collar P,nk of ,hs shirt nI, with an az
More fI the same clothes when seen later
re had small amount of mnner
a con consider dee %Hman Sfn IAN, is eaid to have had
searched, and /: box of cartridras Wis Wis
,raa mana regulation book were discovered
Justicse s asnn,s atnsr things. Department OF
that the S South dasa are inclined TO believe
Mo men. one tall the other shori
teeG after me ne Brooklyn bank shortly
the hold d-up 'oeT Tben on the afternoon Of
paying teller's window dow ny,Iin Up 10 the
envelopes from their rocsets T'bo ,mo Nv
NeiopeS contained automatic revoivers
"iN" TELLER rs SHOT
ri, THROUGH HIS HEART
Peal, paying teller Se 10 hold jeM nn I,t' nis T.;
hands Peal did not move o-n and up f. aiind h.s
ia iarse o''i@ bandt ths second sho, order Then the
heart o Hnoibers sho5 ha him through the
Zeal, ducked behind a stecj coso ine a
SVp'nS W Weons bullet alst.:d aimed at him Henry
nank, was shot twice and died. and
another employee was wounded
ing no to One the mould mould open the gates lead
ssr Of the two robbers. believed now to
have been Young. dived thrnmpb :,
window of ono OF the cages and
sra sa WED back with sack containing
two men walked out Of The bank
threatening a crowd OF men. women
and children outside with their rer0lv-
crs. now and then firing Il sho, at
them.
Detective Albert Doody met the men
one block from tho hank ana re-.
noINer duel ensued. Doody was shot
battle until wounded again. 4 short
distance away the men entered taxi
Gao. forcing the driver to leave the
scene. and making good their escape.