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...tried similar capers. But if the plot theory is correct, it could represent a basic departure in radical tactics. Fire-bombing banks and other capitalist institutions to tear down the Establishment is one thing; robbing them to finance the cause is something else again. At the very least, the Brighton job seems to have been the work of a strange alliance of underworld and radical academe...
...BOSTON, MASS.-Three bandits held up a Brighton branch of the State Street Bank shortly after it opened for business today and shot a Boston patrolman in the back while making their getaway...
...patrolman, Walter Schroeder, 42, a decorated Boston police officer, was rushed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton where he is reported in critical condition...
...front page headline in the Boston Globe read "Priest, Housewife Stabbed to Death"; above it, as an addendum shuffled off to the side of a picture of the wounded cop was the reminder "Officer Wounded During Brighton Bank Robbery." Details of the now famous State Street Bank robbery did not appear on page one. In the back sections, the Globe included four paragraphs on the incident, referring to it as "one of three bank robberies in New England yesterday...
...sounded at first like a throwback to the Depression days of Bonnie and Clyde: three men and two women, with guns blazing, making their getaway from the Brighton branch of Boston's State Street Bank and Trust Co. with $26,000 in stolen cash. Patrolman Walter A. Schroeder, 42, a hero cop and father of nine, tried to head them off- only to be cut down and left dying by a burst of gunfire. When the police were able to piece together what had happened last week, the bank heist appeared to be a bold and bloody new departure...