Crime of the Week

At a fortress-like metal refinery in Brooklyn, the big steel trucking door was being closed one day last week when five desperadoes rushed in, disarmed the manager, bound ten employes together with heavy rope. Two of the gunmen guarded their prisoners, the other three rifled the plant of 30 bars of silver-gold-platinum-and-iridium alloy worth $50,000, took a rifle from the wall and $200 from the cash register for good measure. Then they vanished.

Two days later, Pinkerton men and a city detective in a police car with a Georgia license, acting on stoolpigeon information, followed a car with three men in it to the middle of Williamsburg bridge. Suddenly the pursued car stopped. The men jumped out, began throwing things over the railing into the river. When the gang was subdued, four gold bars with the Brooklyn firm's mark on them were found in their car. The three prisoners had penitentiary records. They incriminated two others. Police revealed that the men, suspected of staging three other similar raids since last spring, were tossing their loot away because an inaccurate test had led them to believe it was brass. Workmen began dredging the East River's 60-ft. channel for 26 bars of precious metal.

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