If the information obtained by police was true, then the gang ran a tight operation stretching from D.C. The final theory by police suggested that the six men were involved in far more violent affairs than initially known, linking them to a shootout at Green Gables roadhouse in Prince Georges County, Maryland that occurred two months earlier. However, Thomas described one of the men as a “white man.” A few days later, police linked a raid in northwest D.C., in which six “shabbily dressed” men robbed a drug store, to the same men in the bank robbery, but still, no one was caught. Racial constructions also played a confounding factor, as the witnesses described them as “foreigners” with a dark complexion.
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license tags, police later declared them to be “dead tags” and were never able to locate the vehicle. Identifying the robbers proved a fruitless task. Roads were blockaded in the Del Ray neighborhood and police in Arlington County were posted at strategic locations. Police in Washington, Alexandria, and the surrounding area were placed on alert for the bandits. Soon thereafter, Jones dashed out of the bank and called Police Sergt. Īs they finished their raid, the robbers bid farewell to Thomas, leisurely walked out of the bank, and sped off in the direction of Washington. While they had the opportunity to take $500 worth of silver, they decided it was too heavy to carry, and left it behind. Meanwhile, the other men ransacked the vault, scrounged up over $2,000 in bills, and stuffed them into a small satchel.
But unlike Thomas, the robbers pocketed over a hundred dollars from him. “We don’t want your savings.” Īnother customer followed soon after Thomas, who joined Ford and Jones against the wall. Thomas responded that he came to deposit it with the bank. Upon searching Thomas’ pockets, one of the men discovered his $20, made up of small bills. Two of the robbers quickly pulled him to a side room, cut up a telephone wire, and tied him to a stool with it. It was at this point that the young Roy Thomas entered. Both were kept under guard by one of the men while the others went to the front of the building. The robbers then forced them to go inside the bank vault and face the wall with their hands in the air. Jones, who, at the command of the classic line, “stick ‘em up,” were staring down the barrels of pistols. Awaiting them were two bank employees, stenographer Mary Ford and clerk Charles E. Another bandit was left inside the vehicle as the get-away driver. Only minutes earlier, five bandits, each sporting blue suits and wearing gray caps and gloves, exited a large sedan and entered the bank. Thomas had just walked into an active robbery. But on the morning of May 4, 1929, when the young boy entered the bank, he got a surprise instead: a pistol aimed at his face. Vernon and Windsor Avenue in the Town of Potomac and deposit $20 for his father. He would go to the Bank of Del Ray at the corner of Mt. (Source: "Ray Gallagher Collection", Alexandria Library Local History/Special Collections)Įvery Saturday, twelve-year-old Roy Thomas had the same morning routine. Vernon and Windsor Avenue in the Town of Potomac.
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