The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-21
TRUCK IS
Held UP BY DOZEN
ARMED CANCSTERS
Mob FIees in Sixteen Cylinder
Auto With Truck Guards in
Pursuit
BANDITS WASTE NO TIME
Leave $2o, 900 Behind in Their
Hurry; Hold-up Brooklyn's
Largest

Brooklyn. N. Y, Aug. 21.-lP)-A
band of at least dozen robbers, arm
ed with half dozen or more sub
machine guns, Tuesday held up an
armored truck In one of the most
daring robberies in Brooklyn's police
history and escaped with an esti-
mated $4,000.
The armored truck. manned by a
driver and two guards, drew up in
front Of the Rubel Company ice plant
on its collecting tour and one of the
guards, William Lillienthal. stepped
from the truck to enter the Rubel
offices.
AS he left the truck. two men.
dressed as laborers, who had been
standing beside an ice truck. lifted an
old automobile seat from the top of
the ice truck, and exposed machine
gun which was pointed directly at the
arnored car.
Say word and this spits," one
of the bandits warned Joseph Allen.
driver, and John. Wilson, the other
guard.
The robbers cleaned out the truck
in three minutes, leaving only one
bag containing $4,000 in the truck as
they sped away in two automobiles.
The three men in charge Of the
armored truck Immediately started in
pursuit
One of the escape cars was describ-
ed as a 16-cylinder sedan. It was
followed by the armored car for over
a mile before shaking off the pur-
suers.
The holdup occurred in front Of the
Rubel Ice Company plant on Bay 18th
Street between Crppsey and Bath
Avenues.
Scores of employees Of the Ice COM
pany and tennis players on nearby
courts witnessed the daring holdup.
Witnesses estimated that the BAN
dts car speeded away at 70 miles an
hour.
Holdup Brooklyn's Largest
The holdup was the largest in
Brooklyns history.
The bags containing the money
were unloaded by the robbers from
the armored car and thrown into one
Of their two machines.
These bags, which contained coin
and currency, were SO heavy that the
robbers in their haste left one con-
tanning $4,000 in the truck.
The truck was manned by driver
and two armed guards. The driver
was Joseph Allen, and the guards
were John Wilson and William Lii
lienthal, the latter Of Brooklyn.
The armored car called at the ice
company for a consignment of cash
AS the truck pulled up in front of
the plant. three wheeled ice push
cart was parked there with two men
dressed as laborers standing by.
AS Lillienthal hoped off to get the
money consignment the two men by
the ice cart suddenly removed an old
automobile seat from on top of the
cart and numbered machine gun.
At this point two automobiles
which apparently had been following
the armored car, screeched to stop.
Five to dozen men, witnesses were
uncertain of the exact number. jump
ed from the two cars carrying half
dozen sub-machine guns
One of the robbers walked to the
door Of the Rubel office. reaching il
just as Lillienthal opened the door
He damned the muzzle into Lillien-
that's back.
Empl0ye Tries to Phone
An employee in the ice company Of
flee reached for q telephone on the
counter. The robber grasped it and
yanked 1t off the wire.
He turned to Lillienthal. reached
into his arm holster and disarmed
the guard. The robber then ordered
Lillienthal to march out
Meanwhile, the rest of the robber
band had surrounded the armored
truck, training machine guns on it.
Four men pushed into the truck,
showing Allen ahead of them.
Then the robbers began the transfer
Of the money bags to their own cars.
The transfer took about three
minutes, the robbers working precise
~ and speedily. They found the
money bags. which contained coin and
currency, so heavy, however. that in
their hurry they left one containing
$40 900.
The robbers leaped into their cars
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pursuit Immediately.
One Of the mobsters dropped his
machine gun. Lillienthal picked it
up, firing several blasts ct the fast
disappearing bandit car.
The bandits drove their automobile
at such q mad pace that about one
mile from the scene Of the holdup
thew had vanished.
Police headquarters was flooded
with alarms and shortly after the rob
berry all available squad cars con.
verged at full speed on the scene.
Police ordered al bridges and othar
exits from Brooklyn heavily guar6.-~
Shoot to KILL" were the instructions
given the policemen. They were told
to be on tho lockout for Ill automo-
biles travelling Ia pairs.
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clothed Ia mystery, the shooting of
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