Radio mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

RADIO MIRROR Gang Busters' Most Exciting Broadcast a sharp voice from behind them. "And don't turn around!" There was the sound of footsteps, then four evenly spaced reports as the bandits shot out the tires on the car. "You won't get far on them flats," said the same voice as before. Bushes rustled at the side of the road, then silence. Rice and Masterson rushed to the car, secured the extra guns which were in the back, and started in the direction the bandits had gone. It was no use. They had disappeared completely, soundlessly. /L GAIN and again the Phantom struck — *» and not once, in all his exploits, did anyone get a glimpse of his face and live to describe him. Often, he and his men kept their faces covered. When they did not and his victims disregarded his warnings not to look at him, he kept his word and shot them down. His method of escape— so sure, so fast, — was what baffled the police. He could be standing beside a payroll car one minute with his men, and two minutes later he would be gone, leaving no trace. After three years of terrorizing the Pittsburgh district, the Phantom widened his area by invading the American State Bank in Detroit and murdering the teller, Charles Taggart. It was the first time he had dared to attack a place where money was being kept instead of waiting until it was being moved, and his success emboldened him so that six months later, in November. 1925, he and his men carried out another successful robbery in the office of the Ainsworth-Meng Company in Detroit. Then back to the Pittsburgh district (Continued from page 31) they went, to continue their lawless career there. Police redoubled their efforts. They staged dummy deliveries to throw the Phantom off the track. Sometimes the paymaster himself did not know in advance what route he was to follow, or what time the delivery was to be made. But the Phantom seemed always to hold up the right delivery at the right time. March, 1927, the Phantom's greatest coup, and the one which began his undoing. The Coverdale Mines at last had something they believed would baffle all the Phantom's plans — an armored truck, with thick steel plate and bullet-proof glass, studded with built-in machine guns. On March 11, shortly after noon, the armored truck turned off the state highway into a side road on its way to Coverdale. Six men were inside, guarding the payroll, vigilant with their shotguns at the peep slits on all sides of the machine. Fifty yards behind the truck, as an added precaution, came a big seven-passenger car containing six more men. Suddenly there was a terrific crash, and the earth exploded beneath the wheels of the truck and its convoy. Truck, car, men, flew up into the air a hundred feet. As it fell, the truck burst open, spilling the unconscious bodies. The Phantom had successfully engineered the most daring robbery in the history of Pennsylvania. He and his men, disguised as laborers, had planted a quarter of a ton of dynamite underneath that road under the pretense of repairing it. Like vultures the Phantom's gang were on the truck before the sound of the explosion had ceased to echo against the hills. It had been split wide open, and they had no difficulty in reaching the money. In a few seconds they were gone again, over a low hill at the side of the road, and into a deserted mine shaft behind it. Once more the Phantom's knowledge of the maze of deserted mine workings in that part of Pennsylvania had enabled him to get away from the scene of a robbery two minutes after he had committed it. CTRANGE, that no one before Paul Ja^ warski* had ever thought of making a hiding place out of the mile upon mile of worked-out coal mines. Winding and tortuous, twisting back upon themselves, branching out in all directions, their damp, gloomy caverns could have made a perfect hideout for hundreds of men. Yet Paul Jawarski thought of many things no man had ever thought of before. Brutal, remorseless, completely without soul, there was still a touch of perverted genius in him. In 1921 he had gathered together a group of criminals under his leadership and established his headquarters in the tunnel of an old mine a few miles from Pittsburgh. His plans were all laid. "If ya all do just what I tell ya, we'll have millions and millions," he instructed his men. "We'll go up out of the earth — get a payroll — and be safe back down here again before they know what's happened. If there are guards, we'll kill them. The more ya kill, the bigger cut ya'll git of the money. And don't never give no warning ya going to shoot." 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