Word: holdup
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...Louis police board. He has presided over the bank's decisions since 1953, when a group of businessmen he headed bought a majority of Southwest's stock. The other big event that year was the death of two robbers in a gun battle during an attempted holdup of the bank. The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery, a 1959 movie about the incident, starred Steve McQueen, and was filmed partly at Southwest...
...from a radical past: members of the Weather Underground, soldiers of the Black Liberation Army, onetime Black Panthers. They included half-forgotten radicals, fugitives who had been running so long that no one bothered to chase them any more. More than a week after the $1.6 million armored-car holdup near Nyack, N.Y., in which two policemen and a Brink's guard were killed, investigators were still rounding up ghosts of the old left and exploring how the disparate and perhaps desperate groups had joined together in so ill-conceived a plot. More than ever, they were wondering...
...fleeing the bloody holdup, the Brink's bandits had literally made tracks. To begin with, there were plenty of witnesses to the blitzkrieg-style heist at Nanuet National Bank, just outside Nyack. There were also witnesses to the police Shootout near by that had led to the capture of Weather Undergrounders Katherine Boudin, 38, David Gilbert, 37, and Judith Clark, 31, as well as Accomplice Samuel Brown, 41, a career criminal. In addition, guns and getaway cars were easily traced to the names of other suspects and to the addresses of their safe houses. The houses, in turn, provided...
...investigation continued, police rounded up more suspects. Two men were spotted in Queens in a car connected with the holdup. They fired at police with guns similar to those used in Nyack. Samuel Smith, 37, was killed in the shootout; Nat Burns, 38, a former Black Panther, was taken into custody. Later, two more arrests were made. Jeffrey Carl Jones, 33, and Eleanor Stein Raskin, also in her 30s, were both fugitive Weather Undergrounders and said to be part of the May 19 Coalition...
...suspicious title switch on a boat license turned up the name Anthony E. Lester, of Beaver, a small town 50 miles west of Port Angeles. The photograph on Lester's driver's license resembled Boyce-and the man snapped on bank film during at least one holdup. The investigators descended on Beaver and learned that Lester had bought a 30-ft. boat for $6,500. But they moved on when they heard he might be living in Port Angeles (pop. 17,500). There they discovered that a Tony Lester was buying vitamins (a Boyce fetish) and marine paint...