The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-24

ments of known gangs as every local clue to the bandits who loot ed an armored truck of $427,950 ended against blank walls.
 Police refused to discuss a re- port they had information that an out of town mob, working with two local amateurs" was involved.
 Authorities did not completely relinquish the theory that the rob- bers may have been a former rum peal Port authorities along the Atlantic coast as far south as Flor ida and in Bermuda and Havana were asked to keep watch for sus- picious schooners or freighters.
 Another sea clue dissolved early today when coast guard vessels re- turned to port after fruitless search for suspicious craft. Police asked them to pick up the boat. Various cities in the east and mid- dle west reported suspicious auto- mobiles. The latest came from De- troit where the police radio broad cast report that car with New York license plates, bearing three men and two women, had stopped at a gasoline station near Tiffin, O., and then sped northward. Pre- viously alarms were broadcast for suspected cars in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
 Prosecutor Optimistic
 While police gave the impress sion that nothing encouraging had developed, District Attorney William F. x. Geoghan of Brook lyn, where the robbery occurred, was more optimistic.
 T can't tell you anything about the details the police may or may not reveal to me-" he said after conferring with Deputy Police In- spector John J. Ryan, "but l will tell you this: The police are not working entirely in the dark. shall be greatly surprised if they do not clear up this case"
 Detectives learned the license plates used on the holdup automo- piles have been stolen more than a month ago. They also traced the pushcart used by disguised lookout of the mob to a man who said he sold 1t for $10 at about the same time the automobile plates were stolen.
 Meanwhile, new undercover group of 60 detectives who volun- teered to work day and night un- til the crime was solved, was as- signed to check on all night clubs, gambling places and criminal hangouts.
 Clues Being Found
 New York, Aug 24- (U.P.) - Search for a dozen bandits who seized $427,950 cash from an arm ored truck in Brooklyn gained headway to-day with disclosure that three rum gunmen had been identified us participants in the raid.
 At the same time, coast guard vessels snaked their way through the fog off Sandy Hook on the trail of three other suspects in a 100-fot boat.
 A third angle in the search came from Keansburg. N. J., where po- lice said that an empty canvas bag from the Federal Reserve Bank in New York had been found on the beach. It might have been washed ashore from boat, they said. The cash stolen in Brooklyn was in bags.
 rTOH group oL rOSueS gallery portraits of the associates of the late Vannie Higgins, slain rum runner, witnesses selected three men as resembling participants in the holdup.
 All three were said to be hard ened criminals capable of engin- eering the nation'$ largest cash robbery which followed in design and execution some of their high lacking exploits of the prohibition era.
 Their names and those of the witnesses were guarded.
 Meanwhile, two coast guard ves- sels answered an alarm that three suspicious men were in a boat 15 miles east of the Sandy Hook light vessel. One of the searchers re- turned, after fruitless hunt.