The evening world., 1921-12-15
BANDITS IN STOLEN CAR GET
$17,676 IN CROWD WITHIN
100 FEET Of POLICE STATION
Sank Messenger Robbed of
Payroll Before Crowd Has
Time to Act.
CHASE BEGINS AT ONCE.
i've Armed Men Flee in Auto,
Kept Waiting at Curb With
Engine Running.

On busy public thoroughtare
within u stones throw OF the pre-
slnct police station in Greenpoint
Brooklyn. four bandits, two of whom
displayed revolvcrs, held up two mes
sengers OF the Grcenpolnt National
Bank ut ll.SO o'clock to-day. dis
armed one of them, grabbed n Dag
containing S17,O76.45 and escaped in an
automobile. The holdup brought out
the fact that the raT used by Ia"
bandits was stolen in Manhattan last
night.
rYe Greenpoint National Bank as
~ Grecnpoint and Manhattan Ave-
nues. two blocks from the Green
point ferry house. The police station
Is across the street from the bank.
Hard by is the teeming Greenpoint
and Williamsburg water front manu-
featuring section. Trolley car lines
run in both avenues. Pedestrians
swarm the sidewalks and trucks
bound to and from the ferry and be-
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City congest the streets.
William Mehling. twenty years old,
Df No. 209 Nassau Avenue, and
Henry Leistner, eighteen years old,
Df No. 24s Kingsland Avenue, left the
eank with the bag containing the
money with the purpose of delivering
I at the factory of the Eberhard
; ,Faber Pencil Company at No. 80
! s4reenpoint Avenue, little more than
block distant in the direction of
the East River. They carried the bag
between them. Mehling had a loaded
revolver in his pocket.
AS the young men walked westward
In Greenpoint Avenue toward the
terry. a Buick touring car, running
close to the curb overlook them and
stopped. Four men leaped from the
car. Two with drawn revolvers con-
fronted Mehling and the others went
toward Leistner.
Hand over your gun" commanded
Dne OF the armed robbers.
-Mehling handed it over. He was
promptly knocked down. The other
bandits grabbed the bag.
A ffth bandit at the wheel of the
par started the engine. The quart
site piled in and the automobile
Eathering speed, turned south in
Franklin Street, a block from the
river in the direction Of Williams
burg.
Mehling speedily regained his feet
Accompanied by Leistner, he ran tc
The police station and reported the
iobbery to Lieut.. Max Neumeyer.
A dozen persons who had witness
I'd the hold-up accompanied the mes
yengers. They agreed that the license
pumber of the car used by the hold
I'D men was 2O9-s4S New York anC
hat Il was a Buick model.
Within ten minutes orders to ever!
policeman in New York to look out 70
the car bearing that license numbe
Bere shooting over the police wires
Detective Captain Carey took charg
II the case and enlisted the aid o
yery detective in Williamsburg. Hunt
FRS Point, Greenpoint and Long Islam
City.
The messengers after beinl
questioned at the Greenpoint statio
we're sent to Police headquarters IL
Manhattan to look over the Rogues
Gallery. They said one OF the arme
bandits was short and stocky an,
wore a dark overcoat. The other wa
bout five feet nine inches tall slende
and wore a dark brown fedora and
Kreenish overcoat. They were abou
twenty five years old.
The car belongs to Julius Lowen
bein, a picture frame manufacture
lt No. 81 East Fifty-ninth Ste
who lives at No. $50 West lS0t
street. Il was stolen last night q
N 40 O'clock from Amsterdam Avenu
INEnd Weat Eighty seventh Street