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Show MASTER MIND RESPONSIBLE SAYSPOLICE Largest Holdup in History Perfectly Executed Officers Find By JOE ALEX MOKUIS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (U.R) A search by air, land and sea today matched the wits and tenacity of metropolitan police against the theatrical cunning of the criminal band that seized $427,950 from an armored money truck yesterday yester-day in America's largest cash holdup. The outlaw raid in Brooklyn and-flight and-flight to sea in speedboats dwarfed the imagination of any bandits in police history. The bizarre features of the crime, the symphony of its execution execu-tion by a dozen gunmen, the minute min-ute details of its scenario-like plot which were fitted together within a space of eight minutes which the holdup required, all lent strength to the belief that police po-lice must cope with a criminal mind of a rare type. No Ordinary Job "Somebody made blueprints for that job," one police official said. "This wasn't any ordinary mob. It was done by somebody with military ability and experience. There's nobody in New York gangs that could have done it. This is something new." In reconstructing the raid today, police pointed out that every man in the gang was made to appear as an ordinary pedestrian in the vicinity of the Rubel Ice Corporation Cor-poration plant. Wtten the armored truck rolled up carrying almost half a million dollars before the day was over it was scheduled to carry about Jl,500,000 the gang was ready and awaiting. Drop Disguises As the truck rolled to a halt, the bandits dropped their disguises. disguis-es. A peddler plucked a sub-machine gun from under the rags on his. push cart. A man in butcher's apron pulled out a machine gun. A well-dressed pedestrian drew a pistol from his coat pocket. An idler at a tennis match across the street took a sub-machine gun from a burlap bag at his feet. Three automobiles roared up be-I be-I hind the money truck. The task of overpowering the truck guards, who had already opened the doors to get out, re- 1 quired but a few moments. Laborers Labor-ers at the plant were threatened with pistols. The money bags were tossed into the automobiles, which collected the gang and sped away, only to circle back to the waterfront. Bandits Get the Jump Today all the modern police devices de-vices seemed to have failed. The plotter of the crime had anticipated antici-pated most of them. The one slip in execution of the crime the dropping of a sub-machine gun by one bandit failed to interrupt the escape. The call to police radio automobiles automo-biles went out swiftly, but a few minutes delay gained when the bandits ripped out the ice plant telephone, gave them enough start to elude immediate pursuit. Police orders to close all ferries, bridges, railroad terminals, main highways, had been anticipated by the bandit leader. He merely circled his men back to Gravesend I Bay, shifted them to boats and sped away. Suspicion was strong today that former rum runners staged the holdup. Along the hazy eastern sea coast, grey patrol craft cruised in search of a dozen fugitives. Over the water front and far out at sea, airplanes zig-zagged over every suspicious craft afloat. Detectives drifted into the unsavory spots around New York's bustling harbor. har-bor. i |