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...fellows," said a hoarse voice. "Stick 'em up and don't move." The men looked up to see the business ends of six short-nosed revolvers. Behind the guns were six men in grotesque rubber Halloween masks, chauffeurs' caps and Navy peacoats. "Oh, my God!" groaned Cashier Thomas B. Lloyd. At the gang leader's command, Lloyd ordered a clerk to open a mesh door into the vault room...
...Buzzing? Suddenly a buzzer rasped in the vault room. The leader looked at Cashier Lloyd. "He said, 'Who is it?' I said it's probably the night mechanic. He said, 'What'll happen if you don't let him in?' I said he'd probably think something was wrong." The robbers conferred, hurriedly grabbed a last batch of moneybags and glided away. In their haste they left at least $1,000,000 behind -but it had been a profitable 20 minutes anyhow. Their take was $1,000,000 in cash...
...Cashier Lloyd loosed his bonds in a few minutes and called Boston police. The first officers arrived in two minutes. The clues were thin-one of the robbers' caps, the rope used to tie the clerks, a fingerprint on a patch of adhesive tape. The holdup men had casually walked through five doorways, at least three of them locked and one supposedly guarded by a watchman behind bulletproofed windows. (It was his night off, police explained later.) The robbers were either very lucky, or had inside help, or both...
...accountant was a company veteran (14 years) named Daniel Cardoso Pimenta. Along with a scion of one of Rio's best families, Chief Cashier Nelson de Almeida Cardoso, he was charged with having embezzled the funds through a tricky system of interoffice bookkeeping entries. Just after auditors spotted the shortage in a routine year-end checkup, Accountant Pimenta disappeared. Cashier Cardoso betook himself to a Rio hospital where he was reported resting under the care of a staff physician, his brother...
Closing time for the little cashier's gate will be at 2 p.m. at the Harvard Trust and 5 p.m. in Lehman Hall...