New Britain herald., 1928-02-27
Chicago Police Announce They Have Solved Mystery and
 Recovered Part Of Loot
GET INFORMATION ON
 TWO OTHER ROBBERIES
Connect Evergreen Park HoldIn
  With That Of a Year Ago and Also With RavenswoOi National Bank $s0,OO0 Job and the Stickup of Joseph Fekcte, Wealthy Mortgage Banker.

Chicago, Feb. 27 R-Police today announced the solution of the $l33,- 900 mail train robbery at Evergreen Park Saturday morning, the arrest of five of the seven bandits and the recovery of large part of the stolen money.
 William O'Connor. deputy commis- sioner of police, after spending most of the night on the case. said he would turn over to the postal in spectors for prosecution these men:
 "Limpy Charlie" Cleaver. at whose home was found s17,125 and $500 in bonds: William Donovan, who police say plotted the robbery with Cleav- CT: William Carmody, Angelo Fran cisco and Joseph Lamm. the latter proprietor of a pool room where members of the gang were said to have gathered.
 Has Confessions
 The deputy commissioner said he CT and Donovan, together with addi- tional information involving them in two other recent robberies-the Ray enswood National bank holdup in which $SO.O00 was taken, and the holdup of Joseph Fekete, mortgage banker.
 Fekete partly Identified Cleaver. Carmody and Francisco as men who robbed him February 3. Bonds found at Cleaver's home were identified as having been taken from the Fekete bank.
 The deputy police commissioner who has been in active charge of the investigation from the moment word was received that the grand trunk train carrying payroll money to two Harvey, H.. banks had been held up. did not reveal the exact amount of money recovered.
 ''It is a great deal more than the SHIPS we found in Cleaver's home,' he said, but the exact sum will not be announced until we have com pleted our work"
 Police Rctitnt He would not discuss the police report that raid on the far south side early today. in which three wo- men were arrested. had led to the finding of $1s.0oO of the stolen money.
 No robbery in police records was more carefully planned or executed than this, O'Connor said. The plot nd constructed by detectives this way: The first step was to obtain in- | formation as to how and when the money would be shipped. This was ! followed by daily trips over the grand trunk to Evergreen park by one of the plotters-Donovan, the | police say. Thus the plotters famil- iarized themselves with the routine of train crew.
 1 A toy train. having the same num- Der of cars as the train that was tc be robbed, was used by members ol ! the gang. to perfect every detail i With the aid of the toy train each man was drilled in the part he would take in the holdup.
 | On Saturday morning the tralr 1 left Chicago with the consignmen' Of sl33,O0O by two Chicago bank. ! for two banks in Harvey. Anonf the passengers. according to the DO lice reconstruction of the robbery was Donovan. It was Donovan. the! say. who pulled the emergency cord
 which brought the train to stop. l So foresighted were the robber! that they had planted a cache O
 dynamite under the platform of thu lonely St. Maria station in Ever
 green Park, to be used if the ex i, plosives carried by the men proved
 inadequate for blowing open th' | mail car door and safe. The cach'
 was found last night by member
 of the bomb squad. Escape wa made in car driven, the polio Continued from page 12.)