![]() They forced him at gunpoint to give them the combination to the bank’s outer vault door (30‑9‑25) and threatened to return and kill him if he gave them the wrong numbers. Janitor Werckle, who lived in a second‑floor apartment above the bank, told Byrnes that just after six in the morning, a group of masked robbers in business suits entered his apartment and bound and gagged him, his sickly wife, and his feeble mother‑in‑law. A man of military bearing, he wore an expensive, dark cutaway coat, tie, and wide‑brimmed derby, and puffed constantly on an ever‑present cigar. Listening to the excited janitor’s story, Byrnes was, by contrast, the very picture of self‑confidence. The barber then ran to police headquarters on Mulberry Street to report the crime. ![]() Just before ten in the morning, Werckle had burst into the barbershop in the bank’s basement and shouted out that the bank had been robbed. ![]()
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