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Named With Sergeant and Bank Director in Big $15,000 Robbery. CHICAGO, March 4—Charles Kra mer, one of the four defendants on trial here for the $15,000 robbery at the Washington Park National bank, on the witness stand named Captain Nicholas Hunt of the Chicago detec tive department; Sergeant Tom Shee han, of the same department, and Harry Kavanaugh, director of the bank, as participants in the alleged conspiracy “which the defendants “claimed there to ro: the bank “Captain Hunt ‘would receive a ‘diamond stickpin for keeping his ‘mouth shut about the robbery,” Kra mer said Eddie Mack, confessed bank robber ‘and state’s witness, told the four defendants. Sergeant Sheehan wan to receive a tenth of the loot, Kramer testified, and Mack left the bank robbers’, automobile five min utes after the hold-up with the $1,500 intended for Sheehan. Kramer pictured Mack on the “brains” of the quintet that robbed the bank and as an Intimate of De tective Sergeant Sheehan. Shortly before Christmas Kramer testified, Mack left $25, representing part of the loot of five thefts at a cafe, for Sheehan.
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Lima Daily News
Lima, Ohio, US
Sat, Mar 04, 1916
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