Evening star., 1937-02-26
Indicted
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the three country cops" who set up
a barricade at North Castle. N. Y,
and captured the trio shortly after
the bank robbery yesterday.
Congratulated by Hoover.
Hendricks today possessed two tro-
phies as result of the capture. One.
in which he took particular pride,
was congratulatory telegram from
]. Edgar Hoover. director of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation, who first
branded Vandenbush Public Rat
No. l." The other was weeks vaca-
ton with pay voted Hendricks and
his associates in the capture by the
North Castle Town Board.
At the Westchester County Court
House the belief was expressed that
Vandenbush entered his plea Of inno-
cent in an effort to delay extradition
to New Jersey to face an indictment
charging the kidnapping Of State
Trooper William A. Turnbull last Mo-
vember II.
Jail-breaker, kidnaper and bank rob-
ber, the 29-year-old Green Bay, Wis,
gunman was hauled out of the rumble
seat of cheap coupe at North Castle.
N. Y, late yesterday, bare ~ min
utes after he and confederate had
looted bank of 1850.
His fight was gone.
"An right" he grumbled short
time later in the Bedford Hills police
station as he eyed on the wall q cir
cular bearing his picture. II might rs
well tell you now as later.
I'm Vandenbush.'
Faces Life Sentence.
Today he faced q life sentence
in prison. A companion in the hold
up, Joseph Stuzza, also 20, and . third
man, George Rera, ~, who drove their
car, faced similar troubles.
Three country policemen, who fig
ured the driver of the coupe looked .
mite suspicious, ANONYMOUSLY cur
tailed for the squint-eyed, thick-lipped
Vandenbush q career In crime which
began 10 years ago.
They did not know the importance
of their catch until later. They were
looking only for bandits who had
robbed the Northern WeStchester Bank
of Katonah, S miles away, few min
utes before.
Partner of another desperate, Harry
whom. Federal agents
said he admitted, he kidnapped William
A. Turnbill, New Jersey State trooper,
last November 11-Vandenburg and
Stuzza held up the bank with conven-
tional technique.
Clad in overalls, faces greasy, they
drove half dozen persons at pistol
point into a vault. scooped up the
money and raced for an automobile
at the curb. A short way out of town
the three apparently switched to
second car, the coupe, Stuzza and
Vandenbush crawling into the baggage
compartment.
Road Is Barricaded.
Warned by a general alarm, Police
men Hendricks, John A. Hergenhan
and william Orman had set up q bar
ricade at North Castle. They had
stopped several automobiles for ques-
tioning when Rera chugged into view.
Brush salesman. Going to New
York" said Rera shortly, but Hendricks
thought that sounded evasive. The
officer plodded to the rear OF the
car and whipped open the rumble seat.
Two gun muzzles popped out.
Hendricks banged the lid shut. He
yelled. His fellow officers came on
the run.
Drop those gunsg" they called.
Metal thudded on the floor Of the
car. Vandenbush and Stuzza wormed
out, hands high. Rera sat transfixed.
Indicted for kidnapping.
Indicted for the Turnbull kidnapping,
for which Brunette Is serving q life
term. Vandenbush also is want
ed for bank robberieS In Sey.
mour, Ripon and Monroe, Wis.
Brunette was captured in q spec
tacular raid by Federal agents under
their chief, j. Edgar Hoover, last
December IS in q Manhattan hideout.
Vandenbush, who escaped with Brun-
cite from a London, Ohio, prison
farm last July, said he had been Iv-
ing in Brooklyn since then.
The bank loot, in brown shopping
bag, was recovered.
District Attorney Walter Ferris said
the indictments for the hank robbery