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Hopes of Capturing Coast Holdups Dim. Aban doned Car Found. Officers Think $56,000 Robbery Staged by Old Fleagle Gang. BERKELEY, Cal., Nov. 8—(U. P.)) —With the discovery today of an abandoned automobile in which five bandits had made their escape yes terday from the $56,000 Southern Pacific mail train holdup, hopes of effecting their capture were lowered. Abandonment of the car, officers pointed out, was the final indication that the robber were criminals of experience. Unless its metal steer ing wheel should give up finger prints ,police faced the virtual cer tainty that the men had either switched to a car of their own, legi timately acquired and hence were without identification, or had calmly walked to one of half a hundred nearby apartment houses where they had previously established a hide away. Hoping that the latter was their course, police patrols began a 5Y a~ tematic canvass of apartment houses, deciding upon the theory that examination of all fairly recent lessees, in view of the migratory habits of most criminals, might at least weed out a group that could be held on vagrancy charges until trainmen could inspect them. One other approach offered a chance, Clarence Morrill, head of the state bureau of criminal identi fication at Sacramento, started in vestigating two weeks ago when aj shipment of sub-machine guns, such as figured in Friday’s holdup, ar rived for half a dozen mysterious designees in the San Francisco bay district. There remains the faint hope that through Morrill’s “modus operandi” department some clue to the bandits’ identity may be ‘furn ished. Police Get Hot Clue. San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley police admitted today that they have received one “hot” lead, but refused to say more. Meanwhile, with an added mo mentum furnished by posting of $10,000 in rewards—$2,000 for each robber—by the post office depart ment, the same postal agents who figured in the recent apprehension of “Little Jake” Fleagle in Missouri went to work. The conviction persisted among officers that yesterday's job was done either by what remains of the Fleagle gang or their intimates. The method, even to the sub-machine guns, exactly paralleled the work of a holdup of 1929 attributed to the Fleagie crowd, in which $16,000 was taken from the same train at a spot thirteen miles further north.
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Lincoln Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Nov 09, 1930
Page 8
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