About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0111
  • TitleDescribing $53,444 traffic light holdup
  • SummaryCaption: "Describing $53,444 traffic light holdup--Walter Poock and Frank Garzilla tell how two armed bandits took $15,055 in cash and $38,389 in endorsed checks from them yesterday when they stopped car for traffic light only three blocks from Brooklyn Police Headquarters. The men, clerks for Metropolitan Tobacco Company, were on way to deposit money at Chemical Bank & Trust Company, 50 Court St.."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Apr. 22, 1952; "Brooklyn Eagle;" on caption: "Eagle staff photo by Lambert." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRobbery -- New York (State) -- New York ; Victims of crimes -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Crime: Robbery: Bank