New-York tribune., 1922-02-18
TaxiBandits Cet$5, ,OOOin
Hold'Up Of 2 Messengers
in Crowd Near Station
at Greensboro Bridge
Captain COrcOran
Fires On Robbers
Flight Over Sidewalk in
Stolen Auto Saves Foot.
pads; One Believed Hit

ROBBERS held up two bank messcn-
gers within pistol shot of the Ouccns-
ooro Bridge police station Yesterday
morning, shot one Of them in the back
ana escaped with $4,000 in small
touring ca-, in which they made a
orcakneck dash up the sidewalk of First
Avenue while Captain Patrick Corcoran
cmptled his revolver after them from
the front steps Of his police station.
captain Corcoran thinks one of the
five holdup men was wounded bv his
lirc' and the hope that the police have
OF capturing the gang is based on this
belief. All hospitals within the metro
politan police zone have been warned
to report any one applying for treat
inent for bullet wound. Although Cap
tain Corcoran and half a dozen other
witnesses of the hold-up got the num-
Der of the robbers car, the clew proved
valuclcss.
Bandits Car Found
The number was that of car which
was stolen February / from a rarape
on First Avenue. The car itself, with
bullet hole in the windshield and
rear cushion testifying TO the accuracy
OF Captain Corcoran, was found last
night in West Ninety-seventh Street.
There was a bloodstsincd handkerchief
IN it which led to tho belief that the
bullet had grazcd one of the robbers.
Although bearing the license plate Of
the car stolen from the First Avenue
garage, the automobile was one which
was stolen February at Lexington
Avenue and Forty second Street AS wa,
proved when its own license plato was
found beneath seat cushion.
Richard f. Kahrs, the bank hlessen-
ger Wto was shot, is seriously wounded.
lie is N Reception Hospital. He is
tlfty-six years old and lives at II West
106th Street. His companion was Jo-
and lives at 1884 Third Avenue Kahrs
had 4 revolver and tried to use it.
llynes was unarmed and escaped with
a beating.
The two men arc employed at the
branch of the Pacific Bank at Fifty
,sHasnth Street and Madison Avenue.
Every Friday morning they leave the
bank at $3.50 to deliver money for the
weekly pay rolls to several firms in
The Yorkville section of the city.
1t was almost 10 o'clock when they
emerged from the Economy Laundry. at
Street and First Avenue,
whore they had left $1,000, and started
walking down First Avenue on their
way to deliver the remaining $4,000 to
the Gotham SILK Hosiery Company, at
430 East Fiftythi Street.
They were on the west side of First
A.-0 T. j
tieth Street, where the thoroughfare
plunges beneath an arch Of the Queens
boro Bridge, when the autom obilc.
which apparently had been trailing
them for two blocks, stopped at the
curb and three men got out One man
remained in the drivers seat and an
other ran from a doorway across the
street and stood on the running board,
ready TO join the fray or stand off in
tcrference.
Three Join in Attack
The three men who jumped out
the bag containing the money. 1t was
wrested from him and he drew his re-
volver from his overcoat pocket. One
Of his assailants dashed it from his
hand with blow with his revolver
butt which numbcd tho messengers
arm.
Nevertheless, Kahrs managed to
seize the man who bad snatched the
bag from him and was tussing with
him for possession of it when the third
highwayman, who had felcd Hyncs
with blow OH the head, showed the
muzzlc Of his revolver into Kahrs's
back and pulled the trigger.
At the report of the revolver a score
o. men and women who had stopped to
" atch the scuffle ran for shelter.
Police Captain Pursues
Captain Corcoran, coming out OF the
greensboro Bridge police station in
SiXtieth Street, beneath the bridge, to
enjoy a day off at home, saw the on
lockers scattering from the struggling
group on the sidewalk, one member Of
which was sinking to his knees, and
realized the report he had heard as he
opened the door Was a pistol shot and
not a backtire from, an automobile.
The police captain reached for his
revolver. Encountered as he was with
a tightly buttoned overcoat it took him
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