Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-28
NABs ONE


tonight arrested James Luna of Oily
plant, Pa. and John Dubok of Ever
cit charged with participating in the
robbery of a payroll of s2S.444 at the
A. G. Walton and Company Shoe fac
tory in Chelsea yesterday morning.
Luna, with a bullet wound in one
arm, was found on bed in South
Boston lodging house. Later the in
spectors discovered in an Everett
barn the automobile in which the four
ba ndits who snatched the money
/ from messengers of the First Nation
al Bank of Boston made their get
away. The car was riddled with bull
lets. Most of the money was recov-
cred.
| Dubok was arrested at hishome.
! The police said they found two auto
matte pistols in the house. They re-
covered three bags Of money which
hasty examination showed to contain
about 100000. Some of the seals on
the packages of bills had not been
broken.
| Luna professed to know nothing
| concerning the whereabouts of his
tthrce associates in the robbery.
He told the police that he had
driven the machine and that he had
been shot by one of the messengers
Il as the car sped away with the three
pounches of cash. The bandits. he
I, Of he
robbery as fast as their machine
| could cary them but when they saw
! that Luna was hurt they dropped
him off in Everett. He was given
1 $500 and two revolvers. he said with
one of which he was to have killed
himself if the police found his hiding
place. The weapons We're found in
tho room.
! Later, the police said. Luna chang
ed his story. asserting that the entire
party drove in the barn in Everett.
where they took New York state Ii
| cense plates from abe machine and
/ replaced the Massachusetts tags. His
| he said, was then dressed, and he
was left by his companions.
| Luna said hetrode all night through
I; the greater Boston diatricti in taxi
cab, finally landing in South Boston.
| He searched until he found A sign
rooms to let" and engaged that in
which he was found from Briget
joyce.
The police said Luna tol6 them the
idea for the holdup came from an
other Olyphant man and that the
plans We're laid in Boston.
The arrest of Dubok resulted from
! information given in Everett police
By Mrs. Edward y. Ellison that an
automobile had been hidden in her
, barn. The police found the car and
then went to Dubok's home and ar
rested him.
Capture of Luna and Duhok came
after a 36-hOur search by the author
tiles in every community Of Southern
New England. After the escape of
the bandits car yesterday forenoon,
the motorcycle corps Of Massachu-
sets Constabulary was put on search
and police throughout this state, New
HAMPSHIRE, and Rhode Island were
asked to watch all roads for hte bull
let riddled machine.
The bapdits were reported as hav-
ing passed through Winchester about
noon Saturday. Then the car drop
ped from sight.
Dubok hal lived in Everett only q
short time He said he came from
Scranton. Pa.
According to Luna, all the rGen con-
cerned in the robbery had worked in
mines near Scranton. He said t.ey had
engaged in bootlegging operations and
although he did not know where his
companions had gone after tho robbery
he had heard them mention the pos
sibility of going to Ontario, where
they were familiar with the territory.
Dubok, however, told the ptlice he
thought the other men had gone to
New York. He said Luna had given
him the bag of money last nielS and
asked him to hide it. paying him s10C
for taking care of it. The money was
found concealed in a pile of under
wear under his bed.
The police later said that Duhok and
Luna had spent the night in the for
mer's room in Everett. which Dubok
had hired three weeks ago. Luna. the
officers said went to the South Boston
lodging house early this morning..