The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
DETECTIVE GOES TO
GET BANK BANDIT
st. Louis Prisoner Believed to
Be the Man Sought for
Brooklyn Staying.
PICTURE IS IDENTIFIED
Kings County Prepares to Ex-
tradite I. Roy Tyler, Wanted
in Other Cities.

The Brooklyn police yesterday were
strong in the belief that the man ar
rested in st. Louis Wednesday under the
name Of Frank II. Mccain was ]. Roy
Tyler. believed to be the taller OF the
two bandits~who robbed the East Brook
lyn Savings Bank OF $4,000 December
Is after killing De Witt C. Peal. the
paying teller. and Henry W. Coons the
assistant cashier.
Four persons who saw the robbers,
including Detective Doody. who was
stopped by bullet when he tried to ar
rest the men as they fed from the bank.
Identified Tyler's photograph. According
to word received In Brooklyn yesterday
the initials 1T. r.. T." are tattooed on
the arm of the man who IL being held
by the St Louis police and it is reported
he has admitted he Is Tyler. Rewards
agrgegating $4,000 are offered for his
arrest, and in addition to the claim upon
him by the Brooklyn authorities Tyler
Is wanted by the police OF Rochester.
Cleveland. Toledo and San Francisco on
charges OF robbery and burglary.
Believe, Right Man Is Held.
Harry Lewis. District Attorney of
Kings county, would not say positively
that one of the East Brooklyn Bank
bandits had been run to earth. but said
he felt 30 hopeful that he sent Albert
T. Conway, an Assistant District Attor-
ney, to ST. Louis to see the prisoner. II
he answers the description which Mr..
Lewis has Of the leader OF the bank
bandits extradition papers will be for
warded as soon as possible.
And IL he Is the man he'll get what
is coming to him. too" said the District
Attorney. 1--WE never seen an electro
cution yet. but I could cheerfully be a
witness in this instance"
John Coughlin, acting captain In
charge of the Brooklyn detective bureau,
said that Tyler's Identification was posi-
tive. Two Brooklyn detectives who have
been searching for him ever since the
crime-William Roddy. who was at
Dallas Tex, yesterday. and Bernard
Dowd. who had been sent to Buffalo--
have been ordered to St Louis by Capt.
Coughlin, and were expected to arrive
there last night. The arrest resulted
from circular sent out by Commits
s.oner Enright December "a. Three
pictures OF Tyler were reproduced upon
1t. together with his finger prints and
samples of his handwriting.
Mccain, or Tyler. had been arrested
Mo-. but escaped. He was in an auto
mobile when picked up in st. Louis. His
wife. Caroline Tyler who came from,
Rochester. was with him. together with
man who described himself as Richard
Harding, a veterinary surgeon. and
Harding's wife.
AS soon as Tyler's photograph had been
identified by Detective Doody and three
others who had seen the bandits In the
East Brooklyn Bank robbery the police
started a countrywide search. II de-
veloped that Tyler was wanted for n
$4,000 bank holdup in Cleveland, Ohio,
on the afternoon OF December 81, 1917.
Tyler was indicted for murder in Kings
county and his photographs, Bertilon
measurements and other details concern
ing him were sent broadcast.
The Cleveland holdep, which was In
the Garfield Savings Bank. was similar
to the East Brooklyn robbery except
that no one was killed. Five men en-
tered the bank from a waiting automo-
bile and held the bank officials UP with
pistols. A negro chauffeur who drove
the machine told the police the crime
had been planned in a furnished room
house two blocks from the bank building
The police searched the place and found
a photograph OF Tyler. Also In the pic
ture was a woman afterward Identified
as his wife and man who turned out
to be Jim, alias Whitley" Connolly
Connolly was arrested late in December
1917. and Is now serving n six year
Traced by His Letters.
1t was learned that Tyler was sending
g. Ill