Word: depots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going south," says Rogers, "and was at my restaurant, you could go down Bow Street, across Depot, across Oak, across West, go through the municipal parking lot, and that would put you out just before the railroad overpass on Route 1, and you'd be clear...
Police sharpshooters patrolled rooftops as 13 suspected members of the Macheteros, a Puerto Rican terrorist group, were brought to the U.S. District Court in Hartford last week on charges of robbing $7 million from a Connecticut Wells Fargo depot in 1983. The precaution was prompted by the violent history of the group. In Puerto Rico, the Macheteros (machete wielders) blew up nine aircraft in 1981, and authorities say they staged a 1979 attack on a U.S. Navy bus that killed two sailors...
...seems worth it. The depot's main building, finished in 1894, is a massive, lovable quirk. The local architect, Theodore Link, was obviously under the influence of Henry Hobson Richardson: rough limestone blocks, big arched doors, Romanesque bulk. But inside and out, he and Louis Millet, the interior decorator, wildly mixed and matched styles. The west wing has its odd Gothic outcroppings, the Grand Hall some rather Moorish nooks and ornament; an intimate dining room seems Viennese; and, of course, the steel-truss roof built to cover trains and tracks is pure 19th century Industrial...
...four employees who work the unenviable night shift at Wells Fargo's fortress-like depot in lower Manhattan reported for duty at 1 a.m. Two were guards carrying service revolvers; two were unarmed. Their job was to open the vault and load an armored car with money bags destined for the Federal Reserve Bank. One of the four, who knew the first half of the vault's combination, executed his part of the routine. Then another, who knew the second part of the combination, opened the safe, which contained about $20 million...
...gunmen apparently broke into the Wells Fargo building through the wall of an adjacent building, using sledgehammers and other tools to create a 35-in.-high opening. There were no guards on the premises, and they waited in the Wells Fargo executive offices on the second floor. Though the depot has an elaborate warning system, the robbers set off no alarms. Police investigators suspect that the thieves probably had inside information. The FBI says there are "concrete leads." Asked why the thieves left so much cash in the vault, Nicastro replied, "Maybe they got tired of lifting...