Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-07-08 | Page 3 | Bandits Stage Daring Holdup of N. Y. Bank

BANDITS STAGE DARING HOLDUP OF N. N Y Y BANK Get Escape as as' as Patrols Isolate Entire f Section of City i t m B By United Pre NEW YORK July 8 New 8 New York City's radio car police poUce patrol system was given the greatest test In its his hi- tory bank robbery today when the he entire Island of ol Manhattan north of Fourteenth street was isolated withIn with with- In a few minutes while patrols moved c along every avenue in nr search h of ol th the bandits A mistake in lit the supposed license number numer of ol the bandit c car r apparently made the search search futile fuW and d hours after af- af ter er currency estimated at from 20 to had been stolen no norace trace race of the thieves or their automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile had been found BIND WATCHMAN Five bandits one wearing a policeman's p police ice mans man's uniform m entered th the Corn Corn EXchange Exchange EX- EX Ex change Bank Trust company branch branchat at street and Broadway while only a watchman was on duty They trussed the watchman and lay ar in wait while 14 arrived to begin the he da days day's s business All were herded into a vault When the assistant manager manager manager man- man ager of ot the branch arrived the bandits forced him to open the safe sale and fled with their loot The alarm was sounded immediately immedi- immedi and over the short waVe waie police broadcast system went an order to every every police poUce car in the city to ra race to position I The first alarm went out at at a al m. m and it was not until that police learned the owner of the car with the designated license was a reputable business man whose car could be accounted for throughout the morning GUARD KEPT The patrol cars were k kept pt on guard in hi the hope that the bandits bad been afraid to head for Brooklyn the Bronx or New Jersey but it was wa conceded that there had been ample time for them to escape from tight Manhattan if It they had rushed for a abridge abridge abridge bridge or ferry They might even have penetrated the Fourteenth street guard and reached the Holland tunneL tunneL tunnel tun- tun t neL After the license was discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered most patrol cars were ere d detailed de tailed to a search of ot all parking stations ita- ita ate sta and side streets for signs ins ol the green bandit automobile From the standpoint ol of a radio patrol test the incident was a great success The system appeared to work perfectly Certainly no other equal population area ever was bottled up in so short a period of time But the license mistake apparently gave the bandits just the start they needed to evade the first flurry of the search