Evening star., 1926-10-01
BALTIMORE BANDIT
SLAIN AS 3 FLEE
NS47,0DO HOLD-UP
Police Find Abandoned Auto
mobile With Body of
Man Inside.
FOUR MESSENGERS LOSE
PAY ROLL AT PLANT GATE
Robbers, Believed From Out OF
Town, We're Unmasked and
Knew of Movements.

BALTIMORE. October Three
bandits held up and robbed the pay
master of thu Henry Somehow Co.,
clothing manufacturers. at Pratt and
Paca streets, of SAT 900 this morning
and fed in an automobile bearing
Ohio license No. 966.210. Later police
found the car at Fremont and
George streets with the body Of a
man inside. There was no trace OF
his companions.
The bandits drove up to the Paca
street entrance of the clothing COM
panv plant and waited for the ar
rival of the messengers, of whose
movements they seemed well In
formed.
AS the four messengers, Howard
Cugel, Walter Eggers, Irving T. How-
ard and Irving Webster, arrived In
taXicab with the funds from
bank. the three walked leis-
urelv up to the taxicab, one carrying
a guitar case. When within few
steps. the man who was carrying the
guitar case threw it open and pulled
ont two pisto and a. shotgun.
Several Shots Fired.
Keeping the shotgun and passing
the pistols to the other two bandits
he ordered the men to throw up their
ha ands and to turn over the satchel.
Several shots were fired, but no one
was hit. The robbers then jumped
into their machine and sped away
A pawn ticket found in the dead
mans pocket bore the name or j.
Darco." Police expressed belief that
il was fictitious a LAUNDRY marx.
"D-S3-6' was on the undercloth-
ing.
A police theory that the robbery
was perpetrated by Out-of-town gun
men was strengthened by the find
ing OF Chicago label in his hat.
The label read Frank A. Geever.
a1IS West. t..Twenty-secend street. Chi
cago."
The SAT 900 loot was all in cash.
The robbers took ii in two canvas
sacks, in which 1t had been taken
from the bank,
All Were UnmaSked.
The robbers were unmasked. They
worked quickly and with few words.
Don't move. Keep quiet. or you're
bandits elasped the money bags un-
der the muZzle of the sawed-Off shot
gun. a shot was sent through the
floor of the taxicab from an auto
matte pistol. at the feet of the mes
sengers further to COW them. The
messengers were not armed.
AS the bandit car leaped from the
curb. it's door. not fully closed. caught
on the other machine and was wrench
ed off. The bandit car did not pause.
but plunged recklessly through Paca
street traffic and disappeared.
The bag containing $500 in silver
was later found to have been drop
ped by the robbers as they escaped.
Victim Describes Robbery.
Walter Eggers, one of the mes
sengers. describing the holdup. said
I'VE secured SAT 900 in paper money
and $500 in change from the Citizens
National Bank and started for the
plant in taxi with the money.
"As the cab drew up to the curb at
the plant | noticed a sedan parked
near the entrance. but did not Sus-
pect il was bandit car. our can
had hardly come to a stop when TWO
men approached it in a crouchlng
position One of them opened the
door and demanded the money.
AT first | thought the men were
employees of the firm trying TO play
a joke on us, but l soon learned tney
were bandits.
THE pair started crawling over us,
reaching for the money, which we
had placed on the floor. The second
man fired three shots as they went.
Il told the other boys not to put
ND a fight, as the money was insured,
and | am sure we would have been
killed had we resisted.
"As they leaped from the car |
watched them run to the rear and
enter the sedan. \ third man was
sitting at the wheel. In a flash the
car backed swiftly about % feet,
whirled around and headed south on
Paca street