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Sailors Escape Work Detail in New Jersey Heist
Five Navy prisoners used a hostage ruse to flee a Brooklyn brig work detail inside the Naval depot at Bayonne New Jersey. They commandeered a contractor’s car and later two more vehicles while pursued by police and Navy personnel, returning to surrender after hours of pursuit. The escaped sailors were Donald Roach Arthur Kahn James May Henry McIninch Raymond Stern and others implicated in armed auto robbery and gun possession.
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Bayonne
N.J
Navy
Gay
Jersey City
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Charles Warren Yankee, Jr
Ashton, R.L
40Th Street
Robert Mullock
East Orange
Navy Personel
Broadman Parkway
West Side Avenue
Henry Mclninch
Clifton
Raymond Stern
Crosby, Minn
Donald Roach
Arthur Kahn
Brooklyn
James May
Buffalo
N.Y