The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-24
PAYROLL CANGSTERS
GET $4,000 Cash
IN BUTLER H0LDUP
Two Suspects in Daring Brock.
Ign Robbery Held by Phila.
deIphia Police
ROME BANDITS GET $s,7s5
Attempt to Force Vault Of Can
adam Bank frustrated by
Accountant
(By the Associated Press)

(By the Associated Press)
In the wake Of the daring day
light robbery In Brooklyn Tuesday,
bandits early Friday held up an I'M
armed mail truck in Butler, Pa, and
escaped with the richest haul Of its
kind In the history Of the Pittsburgh
district. The loot consisted in q $780,
coo payroll.
At Rome, Ca, also bandits armed
with sub machine guns Friday were
successful in obtaining $o,785 in the
holdup Of two bank messengers trans
porting part Of q weekly payroll.
An attempt to force open vault OF
the Canadian Bank Of Commerce,
Lennoxville, Que, was frustrated by q
30-year-old accountant who shot and
wounded one Of two men working at
the vault door.
Brooklyn Suspects Nsbbed
The arrest Of two Brooklyn men IN
Philadelphia on suspicion In connec-
ton with the $427, 900 armored truck
holdup in Brooklyn, was reported FRI
day by Philadelphia police.
One prisoner had five 500 bills In
his possession, the report received
here said, and neither man would
talk.
One described himself Is Leonard
Mego, also known Is Georgia, -. and
gave three Brooklyn addresses.
The 0ther man said he was Philltpo
Arnall, IS, also known Is Phillips. Of
Brooklyn. They were In . sedan
automobile.
Assistant Chief Inspector John ].
Sullivan, informed that money bag
had been found on the beach at
Keansburg. N. J., said that SO far Is
he could determine 1t had no connec-
ton with the holdup.
Butler bandits Use Plane
Three men protected by dark glasses
and q battery Of revolvsrs negotiated
the $4,000 payroll holdup at Butler.
The money, enroute to nearby Lam
dora by registered mail, was to meet
the payrolls Of the Standard Car
company and the American Rolling
Mills plant.
The robbers overlook the truck only
q short distance from the Butler
postoffice and Unanswered their two
automobiles in such q manner as to
force Marshall G. Lackey. the truck
driver, to the curb.
TWO men piled out with drawn re-
volvers, grabbed two sacks Of mail.
raced back to the waiting machines
and sped away.
Lackey said he did not even have .
pocket knife with which to defend
himself.
While the robbery was in progress
an airplane scared overhead, leading
District Attorney Edgar H. Negley, Of
Butler county, to express the opinion
IL might have landed nearby and
picked up the robbers.
"A short while after the robbery
police found an abandoned automo-
bile which they said answered tho
description Of one Of the cars used in
the holdup.
Rome Payroll Insured
The $o,785 payroll seized by bandits
from two bank messengers ct Rome.
Ca, was intended for the Tubize
Chatillon Rayon mill.
Joe Palmer. cashier Of the bank and
Raymond Ford, bank employe, were
In the car with the payroll. Palmer
said the payroll was insured.
The robbery, by two men, occurred
ct the edge Of the Rome city limits.
The mill Is located In westerly direc-
tion from the business district Of the
city.
The bandits, In late model auto
mobile, raced through the city and
out toward East Rome. As they ap-
preached the Etowah river bridge,
leading into the eastern part Of the
city, officers fired three times ct the
fleeing machine.