New-York tribune., 1922-05-25
Bandit Slain.
; Aids Heldin
$4,000 Job
Brooklyn Thug Is Killed at
Bridge port After Cashier
and Assistant Are At
tackled and Badly Beaten
Prisoners New Workers
Connecticut Company Rob-
bers Throw Out Loot at
Wrong House in Flight
Special Dispatch to The Yyibune

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, May 24-One
young bandit. Louis Stone, twenty five
years old, Of Brooklyn, is dead and
three others are under arrest as the
result of daring daylight hold-up Of
tne connecticut Company's pay roll Of
$4,000 and spectacular automobile
chase through Bridgeport and STRAIT
ford. IN which police Communicated
passing automobiles. and following the
exchange Of many shots captured the
bandits and recovered the stolen cash
box.
The men held by the police are Ed
ward kiviat, nineteen. Of % Pike
street; Herman kraut. twenty four, Of
81 Willett Street, and Max Becker,
tWcnty-one, of 321 Clinton Street, all
Of New York City.
Ihese thugs We're captured in STRAIT
ford two hours after they had held Nm
and robbed Sidney Tibbals. paymaster,
and his assistant, William Dunn. Of the
Fay roll IN broad daylight. Tho pris-
oners were taken INTO custody through
the combined efforts Of the Stratford
and Bridgeport police
stone is believed to have been killed
instantly when a shot tired by Dunn
went through the windshield Of the
bandit machine and entered his heart.
Cashier and Aid Beaten
Following their usual custom. Con-
necticut Company officials said. the
pay roll had been made up this morn
ing IN the offices over the Logan store.
and when completed Tibbas. accom-
panied by Dunn. left The building car
iying the box with the money in it.
Both were armed. Crossing Middle
Street from the west side to the east.
they were about midway in the road
when two men, who had got out of the
bandits car suddenly attacked them
striking both over the head with black
Jacks. Both of the Connecticut Com
pany men were stunned by the first
blow and loosened their hold on the
boz. Five other blows were struck at
Tlbbals and he collapsed, Dunn also
Tell under the weight Of the blows.
Dead Bandit Left in Car
One Of the bandits fired. Dunn. re
covering. managed to raise himself to
his feet and gave chase. At the same
pocket and fired five shots. The bandit
machine by this time had started away
from the curb where it was parked
Police sent out a general alarm and
gave chase. The dead man was the
first to be found fter the four men
made their sensational escape from the
scene of the holdup. He WAS dis
covered in the abandoned machine in
n blind street off Broadbridge Road, in
Stratford
kraut was overtaken near the spot
where the car was abandoned. Becker
and kivlat were later arrested as they
We're walking along the railroad
tracks
Becker told police that the four
youths had been hired BY a man in
New York City to rob the payroll and
had come here last night arriving on
the l2:40 train.
Leave Loot at Wrong House
Following the hold-up, the three
thugs, carrying their dead companion
with them in the machine, went out
Barnum Avenue and turned into Bar
mum Terrace. Passing a house in the
street they flung the payroll box to a
woman on the porch She later noti-
fled Fire Chief Allen d. Judson, OF
Stratford, and Motor Cycle Officer
Whelan, of the Bridgeport police who
were part Of a posse, and turned the
money over to them. 1t was brought
back here and turned over to the
local police together with Kraut
driver Of the holdup car.
The bandits mistook the house for
that Of a confederate with whom they
had arranged to leave the morey