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...suspect, 62-year-old James Farrell, was arrested Friday night after a 20-year-old woman bank teller spotted him in the subway, followed him to a Boston restaurant, and from there called police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Janitor Held as Suspect In Bank Hold-Up | 4/26/1965 | See Source »

Miss Emily Caldeira, a teller at the Reliance Cooperative Bank, was on her way to the doctor's when she spotted Farrell on the subway. She was with her boy friend, and they followed Farrell as he got off at Boylston St. and walked into a restaurant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Janitor Held as Suspect In Bank Hold-Up | 4/26/1965 | See Source »

...anonymous sanctuary of numbered accounts. Only two or three bank officers usually know the true identity of the depositors. The bankers also assign false names to all such depositors (obtaining a specimen signature of the alias) so that nobody can present a lucky string of numbers to a teller and walk away with a secret fortune. Any banker who violates what the law calls "his duty to observe silence or professional secrecy" faces a fine of up to $4,000 and six months in jail; so well disciplined are Swiss bankers that no case has ever reached a federal court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: The Gnomes of Zurich | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...robber, described by police as between 45 and 50, about 5 ft., 6 in. and stocky, walked over to teller Maury Moloney, 22, of Dorchester, showed her his gun, and quietly told her to "Reach for the drawers and hand me all your money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gentleman Bandit Grins as He Robs Cambridge Savings Bank of $2700 | 3/9/1965 | See Source »

...treasurer of the bank said that that whole episode "seemed just like a normal transaction," and the half dozen customers and 10 other employees were unaware that a holdup was underway. Even the teller at the next window, Vera Wolhfort, did not know what was happening. The treasurer added that the bank considered the money stolen to be "a limited amount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gentleman Bandit Grins as He Robs Cambridge Savings Bank of $2700 | 3/9/1965 | See Source »

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