The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28
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and we knew the difficulties in getting such money"
 Police quoted Faber as confess ing that the trio: Planned raids on armories to secure plenty of guns and ammu- milton prior to carrying out series of bank and theater hold-ups. Made fruitless raids on the Cam bridge and Quincy armories. Stole weapons from the Lynn armory.
 Shot and killed Ernest W. Clarke manager of a Fitchburg sporting goods store, when he refused to reopen the store and surrender guns and ammunition (Dec ID. Planned bank robberies in many cities and towns within a radius of | 25 miles of Boston.
 Shot and killed c. Fred Sumner, 56, bill poster, during a $200 hold-up at the Lynn Paramount theater (Jan p.
 Held up Palace theater, Wor- cester, disarming a policeman but sparing his life.
 Raided state police exhibit at Boston automobile show, escaping tlLIl d c1k oOhe$ib a machine-gun.
 Planned to hold up three banks simultaneously in Wellesley, but held up the Needham Trust com. .pany instead and escaped with $1390O after killing Policemen Forbes A. Mcleod and Frank O. Haddock (Feb 9.
 Made their "only mistake" when they decided to dispose of their Packard sedan by firing 1t in the Norwood woods. ct was the bat tery of this car which offered the clue that led to the arrests).
 Investigators expressed the belief that further questioning of Faber would result in linking the trio with at least three more unsolved bank robberies involving total of S78,OOO loot. These hold-ups oc- cured at the Brookline Trust company October 2, the First Ma tional Bank of North Easton No- vember 10, and the Wollaston branch of the Quincy Trust com pany December 4.
 Following Faber's supposed ad- missions, Boston police raided the home of the Millen brothers, an 11-room house on Lawrence ave- nue, Roxbury, last night and seized high explosives, a large quantity of electrical equipment. and a dis assembled new automobile. which authorities believed had been stolen. Under the garage police dis covered secret tunnel.
 Boston, Feb 28-tUP)-1n his reputed confession, as made pup lie by state police, Abraham M.
 A ola oradInfa of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, described four mur- ders as follows:
 The machine-gun killing of Po- licemen Forbes A. Mcleod and Frank o, Paddock in the $13,9O0 hold-up of the Needham Trust company February 2-
 we all went inside the bank and knew just what positions we were to take. carried the machine gun and went right to the small room on the right which had two windows which gave a clear view of the streets in front of and around the bank.
 Tt was timed for 9:30 sharp. It was all over in less than 15 min- utes. When the policeman (Mc- Leod) started to cross the street toward the bank after the alarm went off, I fired the machine-gun which killed him. We grabbed two of the men in the bank after get ting the money and marched them at gun point to our car. We made them get on the running-board.
 "One of the men either jumped off or fell off. Irving (Millen) fired at him and must have missed because he got up and ran away. Murton (Irving's brother) drove the car and the machine-gun lay on the seat near him. I sat in the rear and kept the man on the running board on my side covered with my gun.
 we headed toward the Worces- ter turnpike We went down inc main street and as we were epproaching the fire station saw a policeman (Haddockl start to. the center of the road. He looked as though he had a gun In his hand. We didn't waste second on him. Murton poked the machine-gun witsy one hand over the top of the window on the right of tho drivers seat and let loose blast. He was operatlne the wheel of the car with me other hand. The policeman dropped to the street. and no did inc fireman (Timothy Coughlln, who was wounded but reooveredl
 The Killing of Ernest W. Clarke, Fitchburg sporting goods store