Evening star., 1934-08-22
New master Criminal"
Rises In Biggest Cash Rob.
berry In U. S. History.
BANDITS ESCAPE TRAPS;
MARYLAND CLUE TRACED
Large Sum Of Money Reported
Transferred From One Auto to
Another at Havre de Grace.
BULLETIN.


NEW YORK. August 20 R-
AL squad and detective cars in the,
five boroughs Of the city were
ordered to communicate with their,
precincts and district officials In .
command broadcast from police
headquarters shortly after noon to-
day.
No explanation Of the unusual
order was forthcoming. but it was
learned unoficially at police head.
quarters that secret orders to all
squad car men and detectives were
to be transmitted by telephone.
Also 1t was learned that oficials
of the police department feared
that the third car used by the rob-
bers In their $427,0o0 armored
truck hold-up in Brooklyn yester-
day might contain o wireless re-
ceiving set. This car has not been
found.
BY the Associated Press. -
BROOKLYN, N. Y, August ga
new arch criminal, craftier than q
Capone and deadlier than q Dillinger.
hid today from the law, with the
largest loot Of cash ever taken in an
American hold-up.
Timing his $427, 900 robbery Of an
armored truck yesterday rs sardonic
coincidence to Police Commissioner
Organs 60th birthday anniversary.
this new criminal strategist executed
the theft 10 smoothly and fed so
swiftly that his trail ran everywhere
today into dead ends.
The police, failing In their quickly
set trap yesterday to snare the des-
peradc and his men, turned their full
strength today into the hunt.
ThroIghout the night the air tsristled
with radio commands to cruising
squad cars and speedy police patrols:
stop all cars occupied by two or
more men"
Search all garages and inquire II
Lincoln sedan already found has been
stored In garage since Juns 9 to
date"
O1utf0n AGYiSe0s
''Be on lookout for IL men in three
cars, one carrying Thompson machine
gun. Apprehend with caution"
No arrests have been made, but
scores Of men, women and children
witnesses to all or part Of the hold
up-have been questioned. They
went through the rogues' gallery at
Manhattan police headquarters last
night. The witnesses were pledged
not to make any statement.
One oficer said three men are be-
ing sought.
Some credence was given to a
theory that the crime was conceived
by former bootlegger made -des-
perately poor by repeal. This theory
was given substance by the finding
last night Of empty money bags
possibly the very bags In which the
$427,o0o was being transported-in
the rear Of Finnerty's bar and grill.
at ais Emnons avenue, Sheepshead
Bay, Brooklyn.
Used Speed Boats.
The Sheepshead Bay territory Is
close to that once controlled by the
notorious Frankie Yale. It was here,
too. that Vannie Higgins-hke Yale.
victim Of gang guns-operated nour-
ishing rum-running trafic, using
speed boats that OUTRAGED pursuers.
The money bags found were stamp
ed Federal Reserve" and Brooklyn,
Manhattan Transit"
Phil Claro, q bartender, said 10 men
he never had seen before entered the
bar room at pm. yesterday-three
hours and a half after the robbery
and had round Of beer. The number
Of men involved in the hold-up has
been variously fixed at between 10
and II. e
The money taken from the armored
truck consisted Of sums collected at
several Brooklyn branches Of the
Bank OF Manhattan, as well as from
private firms. It was destined for the
Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan,
Crime Precedent Set.
The robbery Is without precedent
either In the size of the cash loot or
in the nature Of the theft itself. Never
before has an armored truck Of the
United States Trucking Corp. been
robbed. The trucks themselves have
always been spoken Of as "hold-up
proof" "a
An average Of s1syooo,oo is trans
ported in these trucks through the
streets of New York each week day.
Tuesdays are the big days" more
money being handled then than on
others. -
The police have apparently no In
clination toward any theory that the
hold-up may have been an inside job"
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