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ADMIT$7071PAYROLI. THF'MMNumber of Jailed RobberyParticipants Reaches 17If Mobile’s number of captured f and confessed participants In Holdups had been increased to 17 today with the admission of three persons of the McPhillips Manufacturing Co. payroll robbery££tfoot of Lawrence st. onNov. 6. 1931.Those who admitted the holdup were. Harold Pitman, grocery store clerk; Adam E. Ritchie, an-imocery clerk, the fatherIIsiftittr' children, and W, 8. 'Bill ^Reynolds, employe of the McPhill» lips Co.|C Took $707 PayrollThey are quoted as telling $»$ lice Chief Warren Burch,Ii Ban; B Chamberlain .and other officers late Saturday that theyPlpiited the robbery of James Dru-jkan, paymaster, and Miss Marie Watson clerk in the plant, of the .$707.96 payroll.All the prisoners were arrested at their place of employment on a „ “tip” furnished authorities several days ago.Pitman, of Prichard, admitted being the brains” of the holdup, .police said Ritchie lives at $1$S. Carolina st„ and Reynolds in_ Crichton./* The confessions said Reynolds,^ on the day of the holdup, furnished information a* to Druhan’s movements, that Ritchie was £ posted along Druhan’s route as a ? lookout, and that Pitman, masked. i1 halted the paymaster’s car, forced ™ Druhan and Miss Watson out .andr fled with the payroll. On hi*flight, Pitman figured in an autoaocldent at Virginia st. andWe in acker ave., but succeeded inescaping when he told the driver he would pay all damages if police were not called because he “had whiskey in the car.’*Police said the confessions showed Reynolds received $40 for his part and Ritchie $100.
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The Mobile Times
Mobile, Alabama, US
Mon, Aug 13, 1934
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