The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07

trolman Nicholas Curran of the
 Norwood police on Lilly Pond road,
 a wooded road near the Norwood- Westwood town line.
 l The car was identified as one stolen last October 23 from Clara B. Harrigan of 97 Gardiner road, Newton. Its number plates, Massa- chusetts registration 63,S38, also were found. One was under the hood and the other was in the debris of the car.
 Two men arrested early today at an Attleboro diner near the Rhode Island state line and questioned by state police at Foxboro subsequent ly were taken to Needham, where they were to be questioned later ty state detectives in connection with the bank robbery and mur- ders.
 Police Chief Arthur P. Bliss of Needham said there appeared to be nothing very definite to connect the suspects with the crime. Sus- picion had been directed to them, he said, when one of them dropped a roll of bills in the diner. Authorities described the pair as Israel Bernstein. 39. of 3S7 Doyle avenue, Providence, R. l., and Har- old Reynolds of 57 Putnam avenue. Johnston, R. l., bartender In a Warren, R. T., establishment. Finding of the car was the first substa antial clue secured by author- ities since the holdup last Friday. when four gunmen. carrying sub- machine gun and smaller weapons killed two Needham officers and wounded two other men as they escaped with $13,900 from the Needham Trust company. Bills believed to have been in the loot turned up in Stoughton, Wellesley, and Needham, but later 1t was indicated that an error had been made by bank officials in giv- | iLg out serial numbers of the stol- en money. Several suspects have been held but none has been iden- tified as participant in the brutal holdup.
 A study of the hulk of the sedan indicated that 1t may not have been abandoned there on the day ! D. the robbery but may have been | dragged there SIS late as last night. For one thing it was pointed out that twigs of trees alongside the
 wreckage were not burned. as they should have been if the fire had | been set there. Furthermore the
 road is much travelled by woods men. and the car should have been sighted before today.
 If the car were abandoned there | immediately after the robbery, however, it's position makes it a | .kI fofx xafx hn fhn IT, tet fled over the ston-Providence and.
 Acting on such theory, author lties said that the gunmen prob- I ably drove over the circ1mferen- tial highway in Needham to Ded
 ham, and then took the super
 highway toward Providence. They
 left the highway at O'Toole' s
 huge sandpit near the Norwood- | Westwood line. abandoned and set
 fire to their original getaway car
 and transferred to another ma-
 chine. which probably was await
 ing them there.
 No cash boxes or remnants of
 tho loot were found.
 The wreckage of the car was
 pointed out to the two Norwood
 policemen by Gordon Buck. son-in-
 law of mes Jackson. former state
 treasurer, 1t was revealed.
 Bernstein and Reynolds were are
 rested outside a South Attieboro
 diner to-day by Patrolmen Charles
 Br0gan and Howard O'Hare.
 Upon arrival of the officers at
 the restaurant Bernstein is alleged
 to have puTposoiy dropped a roll
 Of 33s6 to the floor. A young
 woman Rho was not with the mon
 but who knew Bernstein picked up .the money.
 1 When the inhident was called te
 their attention, the policemen
 went out ln search Of Bernstein
 and Reynolds who had left, They ] found and questioned the your