The New York herald., 1921-02-11
$4,000 WHISKEY
HOLDUP LEADS TO
KILLING OF TWO
Truck With Twenty Bar
rels Is Stolen on Lincoln
Highway.
WRECK AFTER MURDER
One Guard Shot to Death,
Another Blackjacked and
Two Flee in Woods.
CRASH KILLS A BANDIT
Three Others Believed to Have
Been Hurt When Car
Overturned.
CRASH KILLS A BANDIT

than $40, 900, was stolen last night by
four automobile bandits who held up
the driver of the truck, and three men
who followed the machine in a sedan
car on the Lincoln Highway near
Monmouth Junction, \. j. In the fight
for the whiskey the bandits shot and
killed Leo Salamandra. a saloon keeper
of Trenton. and are believed 10 have
killed one OF the crew of the truck,
although the report OF the second
death has not been confirmed by the
police.
Less than fifteen minutes later one
automobile in which they were es-
Gaping came into collision with an
other machine at Franklin Park. Early
this morning the police Of New Bruns-
wick had not been able TO locate either
the truck or the remainder of the
bandits.
According to information obtained by
the New Brunswick department. which
has sent patrolmen and detectives to
search the woods near the junction, the
truck was owned by Abe Pafnacs Of
Jacobs street. Newark. and had been
sent in charge of a white man and a
negro to transfer a load OF twenty bar
rels OF whlskey from another truck,
which had broken down on the way
from Newark to Trenton. The truck
completed the transfer late in the af-
ternoon and started for Trenton. With
Salamandra and his brother Titta and
q third man, known as Charley, follow
ing behind III a sedan
Five Flee Under Fire.
AS the truck and the sedan neared
the Monmouth Junction. not far from
New Brunswick, touring car filed
with four men passed swiftly and turned
in the road ahead. blocking the high
way The driver OF the truck stopped his
machine, and as he did so the four men
ieaped from their car and ran forward.
Two of them covered the driver and
his assistant with revolvers while the
others stopped the sedan and threatened
the three men in this machine with
guns. They compelled the fSalamandra
brothers and the other two men from
the truck to get into the touring car,
and then one OF the bandits climbed
aboard the truck and started IL in the
direction of New Brunswick. The other
three bandits turned their machine to-
ward, Somerville and Rocky Hill, fore
ing the FIVE men who had been with
the whiskey truck to go with them
About quarter of mile from Rocky
Hill the crew drew near a cump Of
woods alongside the road and there II
stopped. The prisoners were told to
alight. As soon as they set foot on the
ground the five men started to run into
the woods. The bandits promptly opened
fire. killing Leo Salamandra. and.
according to an unconfrmed report
one other. Salamardra's brother was
caught and severely beaten with a
blackjack. so seriously hurt that he was
hurried to a hospital in New Brunswick
as soon as possible and may die. Two
of the prisoners succeeded In escaping
into the woods, however. and hid be-
hind trees and in the underbrush so sue
cessfully that the bandits could not And
them. Finally the bandits entered their
car and drove rapidly away, evidently
trying TO overtake the truck. The men
who had been hiding in the woods then
came out 10 the road and hurried on TO
a farmhouse, where they telephoned TO
the New Brunswick police.
Bandits Believed Hurt.
The New Brunswick Police Depart
ment sent six patrolnen out in autoino-
biles. and four miles from the town they
came upon the wreck OF the car, which
Is believed TO have been used by the
bandits. with one man mortally injured
lying In the wreckage. lie died later
In st. Peters Hospital in New Srnus.
wick without being Identified. Accord
ing TO the police the machine came into
collision with that OF Michael Isala Of
Brooklyn. who told the police that the
other machine was running very fast
and that Il turned over after striking
his machine. The men who had been IN
the car with the injured man had dis
appeared when the police reached tho
scene. All OF them. however. are be-
lieved 70 have been hurt. and The police
think they are hiding In the woods near
the scene of the wreck
The New Jersey authorities believe
that the bandits are members OF the
gang which broke into the warehouse
Of the Speer New Jersey Wine Company.
in Pssssic. and stole $4,000 worth OF
wine OF the vintage OF 1856 This rob-
berry occurred on Wednesday night. but
was not discovered until yesterday ar
ternoon. when Irving Specr, president
Of tho company. had occasion to 60 into
the warehouse. Tie found that the
thieves had broken Two doors OF the
building and carried away the vino on
a truck