Show GRAB GANGSTER 1 r i 1 e A. A C BANK HOLDUP Agents Recover 7 in in fl Phoenix Arrest PHOENIX Ariz March 25 UP Lloyd UP-Lloyd Lloyd E. E debonair debo nair flair bank bandit and accused killer rated one of the nations nation's top 10 criminals surrendered meekly to the federal bureau of investigation investigation I gation agents at Sky Harbor airport Friday The notorious yacht bandit of the was surrounded by a cordon of F FBI B BI I agents and Phoenix police as he stepped off an air airliner airliner airliner liner from Los Angeles Although he was armed with a caliber 44 pearl-handled pearl revolver he put up no resistance pockets were filled with in cash when he was captured He admitted it was part of the he stole at gunpoint gunpoint gunpoint gun gun- point Thursday from a Los Angeles branch of the Bank of America The arrest was made so quietly by five F FBI B I agents and five city detectives that scores of persons at the crowded airport did not know anything out of the ordinary was happening was nonchalant when officers moved in on him Ive been expecting something like this he said I 1 was hot and andI I knew they would be on the look for me F FBI B I agents credited an undisclosed undisclosed undisclosed un un- disclosed west coast underworld tip for setting the trap which netted a man with a record of more than successful robberies five escapes from California California California Cali Cali- fornia state prisons and wanted by police in half a dozen west coast cities He apparently fled here after he was identified as the gunman who Thursday robbed a a a. branch of the Bank of America in Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles of He also is wanted in San Diego Cal for the murder I of a bank customer during a holdup holdup holdup hold hold- up of the Seaboard Finance Co in m 1948 The F FBI B I said he readily admitted admitted admitted ad ad- staging the Los Angeles bank robbery but denied any connection connection connection con con- with the Seaboard Finance job in which Arthur W. W Smith 55 was shot and killed was traveling under the name of H. H P. P Shaw of Joplin Mo on a Trans World Airlines I Constellation and a partner Ethan Allan McNabb operated from a swank s cabin cruiser in the posing as sportsmen They robbed banks and business houses and then would flee to their cruiser I and escape It was estimated they pulled more than successful holdups before they finall finally were captured in 1929 McNabb finally was executed on the gallows at San Quentin after he killed a convict convict convict con con- vict during an attempted escape in m 1935 r r F i frie Lloyd Notorious gunman arrested for holdup |