Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-05

commodity there Is around prison"
Mr.. Sutton has an abundance of time. He
has TO serve ~ years. 20 years Of which he
owed Sing Sing when he left without saying
good-by 10 Warden Lawes
sutton is AS ingenious out ofeprison as in,
actually making blueprints Of banks he plans
TO rob He and his assistants study these un-
til they know the place thoroughly If
they worked there
Among arsenal of weapons found in his
West Philadelphia apartment at the time of
the robbers last arrest was complete out
fit of mechanical drawing instruments and
stranger things than that
In his first attempt to rob a Phia-
delphia bank Sutton dressed two of his men
in uniforms Of telegraph messengers The
slick one" had observed that messengers are
always running in and out of banks without
question. But when his two impersonators ar
rived at the bank just before opening time, the
smart Waterman was suspicious
He knew that two messengers would not
be sent from the same office to the same bank
when one could attend to both errands
The fake messengers became angry at his
sharp questioning and finally drew guns, only
to run away, with tears streaming down their
faces.
The Waterman had squirted tear gas at
them through a peep-hole. Evidently Willie
threw away one of the uniforms because only
one was found in his apartment.
Undiscouraged he revised his plans, got
into the bank at night with one of his men
through skyiight overpowered and tied up
the bothersome Waterman and then had to
wait until after opening time because there
Mas -ti.ae-lacl<- the-Iia-tfits
When that time came he put on the watch
mans uniform, let in the employees as they
arrived, one by one, bound and gagged them
Then when the vaults could be opened the
pair walked out with the loot, unnotced.
During a successful New York bank rob-
berry, spectators insisted that they had seen a
strangely disinterested policeman lowering
around.
This annoyed the police no end until they
learned that in Wilie's Tat was also found the
uniform Of police captain
The best was none too good for Mr. Sutton
That arrest interrupted what may have been
his grandest scheme Of all. The police say
he was planning TO send two charming girls
through college. Neither he nor they saw fit
70 divulge the big idea. But he might have
shown the world something new If ne could
have put into effect his alleged plan 10 be
assisted by sweet giT1 Graduates One OF THESE
girls was his sweetheart, Ida Sadvary. She
was a high school graduate and the police
believe Slick Willie figured she would be
~ an ideal front" If she graduated from a
womans college This convinced detec-
- tives he was plotting swindle when his
arrest shattered all his plans and cur
- tailed Ida's education
George Petersen who may have given
Slick Willie bis mask idea, improved his
time IN Sing Sing by making a pretty good
mask Of himself and also one hand, from
mixture of lime and asbestos.
AS an added feature he attached the
earphones of the radio set he was per-
mitted TO enjoy At Sing Sing guests are
not permitted 20 use loud speakers be
cause they disturb the sleep OF the others
a humane idea that has often been urged
on hotels
This uIse gave Mr. Petersen time TO
scramble over tho prison roof but ne was
caught after all