NEW YORK HOLD-UP

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 249, 20 April 1912, Page 9

NEW YORK HOLD-UP

VI\ r ID AL'I'OOT OF TAXI-CAB OITRAUE. Xew York. March 1. tddie Kinsman, the amateur pugilist, m confessing to the part he plaved in the £'2t>,ooo taxi-ca'b hold-up, gives an amazing picture of perhaps the most sensational robbery ever perpetrated in the heart of New York. The characters were ..Scotty, a publichouse loafer, who stood in'the middle of the street to compel the taxi to slowdown; Dutch, who silenced one messenger; Gene Splaine, who looked after the i>,t)u-T; Martini, the chauffeur; and a j outh with a concealed pistol. They had all carefully rehearsed the affair wit'li a friendly chauffeur and tavi in Central ,I'ark. Kinsman'.-, narrative proceeds: "\Ye all stood half concealed in the doorway* round Trinity Place ready to plav our part, like regular actors." Pretty soon the taxi showed up with .Martini'at the wheel. Scully slouched acios, the slroet. ami 'Dutch raised his hat a> a signal, t hen .Martini slackened speed to ep from hitting Seotlv, and we all made a bee-line for the cab. Evervtliiuoworked line. My game was to jump |, ° fide .Martini and make bluff ot holdiii" a l " J 11 * nbs. As 1 did so Diudi .. I'liickjack in hand, hopped inside one through ,ach door, ami .| w ami .Votly dammed the doors behind "I didn't look round, but could hear em beating up the old man and kid who were carrying the coin. I sol so excited that I forgot my part, and Mar'wC " Ifc ' ilt fl,il s l ,eed » kl 'Pt inut»n. Slick your h s t mto me and make tjo ok good. This I did, but Pd no IT 0 * y*' sei'ined to be going 10(1 I"I''* 1 ''* "" hour. I wa.s never so scared hi m\ lite. Suddenly we stopped 1 saw Dutch and llene leap out with the money-bag. -i hopped off after l),em. They were both covered with blood from tile „a^ ZTtU WOiWt ! S ' looked «wful. < a iho <*i oivd was lncrcasm" Then Martini blew his horn. Politic,, sut'l founded the taxi, and we all. but Martini "t course, slipped into a back street 1 J'an mto Dutch, whose bloody face being wiped by Ueuc's handkerchief. Within a few minutes all entered the the 'in"" "'I, 4 ' SalUoli ' : '" d UL ' k ' h I>,V It contained lour packages— ZmT: U}m " (lok l 1"' three !r 11 T, "' U ln slij) l )(!tl tllree Jtaliiiu double-crossei's. \Yc had to share the *".ig "'th them, for though thev hadn'l " s - tl "'- v had pistols'in their pock-