The sun., 1918-12-15
NO CLUE FOUND TO
BROOKLYN BANDITS
Detectives Comb City and
Watch All Exits for Men
Who Robbed Bank.
MOTOR DRIVER IS HELD
His Grilling Fails to Help In
quiry-Four May Have
Been in Holdup Party.

Hundreds of detectives and a force
of several thousand policemen are
Watching every exit from the city OF
New York for the two bandits who
shot up the East Brooklyn Savings
Bank Friday and got away with al
most $4,000. The best detectives in
the city are combing the dives Of the
East Side and hundreds more are run
ming down hopeless clues.
Not one tangible clue had turned up
until last midnight and no picture in
the rogues' gallery bears any resem-
blance to the bank officials descrip-
ton of the robbers. The police believe
they may still be In New York.
John Mulllgan, a taxi starter at the
Hotel Navarro, was arrested last night
charged with completely in the holdup.
The police say Mulligan was APP
preached by the two robbers on Mon
day and asked II he could get them a
taxicab at any time they wanted one.
He saw them again on Friday. It is re-
ported, in front of the hotel. and asked
the men when they wanted the car.
The taller OF the robbers is said to
have replied:
We'll take it now. II you'll give us
a good man; a fellow who will shut his
mouth and keep mum on anything he
sees and hears"
Mulligan was held by District Attor-
ney Lewis as accessory to the crime.
George H. Mccullough, the pale
hoy who drove the tax.cab that
made possible the robbers escape,
was examined for hours yesterday by
Police Captains Carey and Coughlin
and Assistant District Attorney Gold
stein. but the chauffeur could tell
nothing. He will be arraigned to-day
in the Adams street police court for
homicide as an accessory to the crime
Mccullough picked the robbers up
at the Hotel Navarro and he had an
inkling of their business when they
drew up near the Brooklyn bank, but
he was too frightened to disobey their
orders. He had only to jump out OF
his car and hop into any store along
robbers in escaping on the run would
have been slight.
Ready to shoot mt All Times.
Capt. Carey said yesterday that
from the character of the robbers I'M
doubtedly they would have shot their
way to safety had Mccullough made
such a move. AS it was Mccullough
zigZagged his car out of danger. a
bullet from Detective Doody's gun
just grazing his head. The boy has
a good record and his employers
speak well Of him.
All the neighborhood of the Navarro
Hotel. Thirty eighth street and Sew
enth avenue. was searched by Crays
detectives yesterday. but the only
men whose description tailed with
that of the robbers We're two who
registered from the Delaware Water
Gap, Pa. They are being investigated
Two of the bandits accomplices
covered the bank, according to the
wife of one of the bank officials. She
was just leaving the place, when she
saw the taxiCab drive past and stop.
while another touring car drove. up.
The men in both cars exchanged
words and the automobiles moved on
A few minutes later she heard the
rattle OF shots.
Detective Albert C. Doody, in the
Williamsburg Hospital with bullet
wounds in his left side and arm from
the battle he had with the fleeing
holdup men, says he had Mccullough
covered and that the boy drove off
in spite OF it.
Il had just come from Coney
Island and was standing at Franklin
and Myrtle avenues waiting to board
a car" he said, when l heard the
burglar alarm bell on the outside or
the bank. ] turned and saw a woman
faint in front of the building and then
others point up Kent avenue. | saw
two men running toward the taxicab
and so I levelled my gun at the chauf-
feur The tall man pushed the small
fellow into the car, and the Chauf-
feur must have told him | was cover
ing him, for he turned as he stepped
on the running board and fired sew
eral times at me. l shot at the tall
man and the chauffeur, and from the
marks on the car l nearly got one
OF them.
II was hit twice and felt dizzy, but
heard one bandit shout at the chauf-
four: GO like hell; put some speed
on and travel as fast as you can"
Doody will recover.
The bank conducted it's business as
usual yesterday. The trustees met
and found that the amount stolen was
Sl2 ,S32.S5. two checks having been
found.
David MorehOuse, treasurer Of the
bank, said the robbery must have been
planned. The special police
man, usually on the floor of the bank,
was in Manhattan Friday afternoon
buying Liberty bond receipts in the
Federal Reserve Bank.
There was nothing In the appcar-
anCe Of these robbers to mark them as
out of the ordinary" said Mr.. More
house yesterday. "They looked like
bona fide depositors,"
Funerals OF Murdered Men.
Henry w. Coons, the murdered as
slstant treasurer of the bank, will be
buried from the home of his sister
in-law, Mrs. Wilbur T. Hawkes.. 10