Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-28
S2,5OO,O0G Nail RObbek Arrested
New York Police Believe
 Greater Part of the Loot Will be Recovered-T Three Bandits Captured by Ruse.

New York, April 27.-Post office au- thorities today believed they were in a position to recover the greater part of the Sz,70o,0O0 loot taken by three armed bandits in their daring raid on a mail truck on Lower Broadway last octob- CT.
 Working tirelessly since the postmaster general himself started a nation-wide nunt for the robbers, post office inspec- tors announced that their six ..-onlhs' work had been rewarded by capture of three men whom they arraigned before United States Commissioner HitchcocK on the charge that they had found them trying to dispose of $75. .000 wortE ct se- calllles which had formed part of the I under.
 The arrests, it became know were m9de yesterday, in dramatic fas;.fon. il; t"e or the largest dowa-toWn ]. o}4trage Gases, which had turned ofe. :heir premises and stafs to assist t;le in spectors in laying a trap for the trlo. Alore arrests in the immediata fr.rre W ere promised.
 Last Friday, the inspectors clainie ] they had received word that Louis and Jack Wolfe, dealers in silk goods and Ja- cob Price, whose business was not gwen, were trying to dispose of seeuri- ties listed as among those stolen.
 Thereupon the inspectors obtained the consent of the brokers to use their quarters for carrying on negotiations with the suspects. One inspector, DOS ing as a broker, got in touch with the Woltes and arranged for them to call at the brokerage office
 When they appeared, nearly a score of inspectors were scattered around the of flee. Some posed as customers, others guarded doors and elevators. The in- spectors claimed to have closed negotia- tions for the securities at 50 per cent. of their value but asserted that one of the suspects demanded to see the color of the brokers" money before producing the bonds
 He was shown thousands of dollars borrowed for the purpose and expressed himself satisfied.
 When he returned, inspectors station ed near their partners private office jumped forward with drawn revolver: after pre-arranged signal had toll | them the securities had been produced. Hands up," they shouted and tht hands went up
 In the meantime. in another broker. 1 age office, Price was alleged to be dick ering over the sale of more bonds II, was placed under arrest in the same manner
 After the arrests had &een made, tn, inspectors claimed to have learend tha 1 Louis Wolfe had laid elaborate plans [, thwart any trap that might be lad foi | him.
 According to the inspectors story, r, 1 brought several friends to the broker l age office carrying packages similar il 1 shape to his own, but filled with worth l less paper. His theory, as interpretec
 by the inspectors, was that if they hac 1 been stationed there. they would b 1 over-zealous and siege the first person ap l bearing with a suspicious looking pack
 package, enabling the bearer of the SC cureties to get away in the confusio1
 The post office men asserted this rus would have worked even IT they ha, been hasty on the trigger, for the corp 1 mobilized for the arrests had been or l dered t9 siege all persons attempting quick getaway.
 l When tht three prisoners were arraign l before United States Commisione 1 Hitchcock, Assistant United States At l torney Cahill told the commissions
 Price had offered to sell him s7S0, ,O0 l worth of bonds.
 l Commissioner Hitchcock held them il 1 $25.000 bail each fer a further hearin; 1 next Thursday