The Great Taxicab Robbery: A True Detective Story
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About This Book
In early 1912, characters with names like Dutch, Jimmy the Push, and Scotty the Lamb joined with co-conspirators to steal $25,000 ($590,696.97 in 2014 dollars) during a bank transfer. Amazingly to us today, the transfer was done in the taxicab of Geno Montani. The police, one of them a famous former Pinkerton man, were on the hunt. Out of print for more than a century, this lively account brings true crime of the early twentieth century to life. The police use psychology, subterfuge, and good old police work to corner their quarry. The man to whom this book is dedicated was one of New York Cit...
Chapters (155)
- THE GREAT TAXICAB ROBBERY
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE CAST
- The Great Taxicab Robbery
- CHAPTER I WHAT THE PUBLIC HEARD ABOUT THE CRIME
- CHAPTER II HOW THE CRIME WAS HANDLED BY THE POLICE—ON THE TRAIL
- The First Alarm
- Montani is Examined.
- The First Direct Clue
- Montani Points Out “King Dodo”
- Discovery of Kinsman’s Trail
- “Plant 21” Is Established
- Montani Goes Free
- What Developed on a Busy Tuesday
- Annie Shows at “Plant 21”
- The Trail Is Taken Up
- Montani Quizzed Once More
- The “Orange Growers” in Chicago
- The Traps Are Sprung
- CHAPTER III HOW THE CRIME WAS HANDLED BY THE POLICE—THE CONFESSIONS
- Jess Confesses and Assists
- More Money Recovered
- The Fine Italian Hand
- One of the Brigands Comes In
- FINAL A WORD ABOUT THE NEW YORK POLICE
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