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FIVE HELD AS
READING BANDITS
-Four Positively Identified as
Bank RObbarS.
NEARLY HALF OF LOOT FOUND
Woman's Good Detective Work F.s
ures in Capture of Three of Pris,
oners and in Obanting a Confession


Reading. March With five Sus-
poets under arrest, four Of them posi-,
lively Identified as members of ths
gang that looted he Peoples Trus:
company, of Wyomi&Sing. of S1SU.SU
iii cash and securities and with thl
recovery in New York of $4,000 WOrtl
of railroad bonds as part of the booty
the solution of the celebrated Berk.
county bank robbery is nearing com
pletiOn.
The final chapters of the sensational
lold-up of Ghe trust company employees
on February + and the getaway, TO
gether with the work OF Miss HelCi
r. Davis, of Reading, who, in tn
role Of detective, WAS responsible f0.
the arrest of James Aiinogue, in New
York, and the subsequent develop
mentS. are about to he written
Identified by Miss Davis as one O.
her two automobile companions t.
Philadelphia on the day following the
robbery, John (kid Rroddie, aged
-, who also is known as Willie Ban
kO and Buff Costello. was arrested il:
Hoboken, n. j., as one of the bandits.
Later in the day n second arrest wa,
made in Hoboken.
This prisoner was identified by Mis-
Davis as the man who went undea
the name of Carl Scott at the Snutl
Sixth street r0oming house. which WA.
used as rendezvous prior to the rGh
berry. Scott also is known as CaI
Scott and Rroddie have been issue,
here ana forwarded and steps taken t.
axtradite them. Scott also is said +
he wanted in Detroit in connection
with the killing of two detectives;
there in Il hold-up of a bond hro!;
er'S office
In the custody of state police, Ed
ward s. Hodge. 26. and Bernard O'Cnn
nor, 30. arrested at Erie. were brOugh
here from GreenShulg They wer.
taken before Squire Hunter Biehl. o
WyomisSing, Justice of the peace o
the borough, who came into promin
ence with the l"ntin& of the trus
company. and formally. committed +.
RerkS county Jail to await a hearing
Mrs. Mamie Mcdonald, the SOutl
Sixth street roomin%houSp keeper
where James Minogue. the first MAJ
to be arrested in New York, had rooms
stated that she had identified HOdg,
as a caller on MinOgue and not O'Con
nor, as previously announced. O'Con
nor the woman was unable to identify
positively, though she said she be
lieved she had seen him at her home
calling on two other men StOppin:
there.
James MinOgue, who has made :
confession in New York following hi,
positive Identification by Miss DaVi:
as one of the gang, will be brought t.
Reading this week District ATTORNEY
Mays however, has in his possession
ss0, 1903 worth of high grade railroad
bonds found in New York at hiding
place revealed to the authorities there
by Minogue.
1t is reported $4,000 in currency
also was found with the railroad
bonds at the place wher A[inogue haC
~secreted them. This cash, it is said
according to Min0gu5's confession, he
obtained by selling part of $4,000
worth Of Liberty bonds stolen from
the bank 1t also is alleged that NIinO
que in his confession stated that tbs
$27 800 worth of Narrow Fabrick com
pany stock certificates stolen from thu
bank had been torn up and later en-
tirely destroyed 10y burning by him
self and other members of the gam
because they were convinced it woul(
be dangerous to try to negotiate tht
sale of these securities.
1t is stated that Miss Davis, heavily
yelled, was stationed in a taXicab near
by cafe in HobOken where Br0ddiG
was apprehended on suspicion anC
identified him. Broddie, it is claimed
entered the WyOmissing bank vaul
and cleaned it out while the Othel
bandits kept the employees of the banl
at bay.
1t is evident, therefore. that she vii
be yelled in her further jOurneying:
with the detectives in their efforts t.
run down other members of the ban(
of criminals. 1t also is possible tha
she may be disguised to throw off thu
track the bandits who may be seek
ing her