ROBBING OF BRINK’S

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 13

ROBBING OF BRINK’S

Stolen Money Recovered (Rec. 11 p.m.) , BOSTON, June 4. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Boston police, in a swift raid on the basement of a Boston boardinghouse today, seized what they said was between 70,000 and 90.000 dollars of the 1,218.000 dollars stolen in the fabulous Brink’s money transportation firm robbery of January. 1950. The agents reported that they had to knock down a false wall to get to the money, which was stored in old newspapers and plastic bags in a closet. Sixteen packages of notes of high denominations were found wrapped in newspapers and eight in the plastic bags. Two men were arrested and taken to police headquarters for questioning. Police said the basement where the money was seized housed several Commercial firms and there were several false walls in the basement. The rolls of newspaper packages and the plastic bags were stored in an old ice cooler. The agents indicated that the information which led to the raid came from Jordan Perry, aged 31, a Boston stonemason, who was arrested last night in Baltimore with what the F. 8.1. described rrs 4635 dollars of Brink’s money in his possession. Ten other persons are in custody in Boston awaiting trial in connexion with the robbery. Baltimore police said that four bundles of notes found in Perry’s hotel room bore the same serial numbers as those on the money taken in the Brink’s hold-up. Police reported that some of the money found in Perry’s possession smelled mouldy —like that seized today in Boston. The robbery—the largest in cash in United States history—was pulled off by a group of masked and armed gunmen. who used false keys to get through Several locked doors to tne money counting room in Brink’s headquarters in Boston.

There they surprised and trussed several money counters and guards, stacked the loot in big bags, and carted it off in a truck parked outside. The first arrests were not made until six years later, when the F. 8.1. chief. Mr J. Edgar Hoover, announced that the robbery had been solved. Most of • those allegedly involved were picked up after Joseph (Specs) O’Keefe, one of the alleged participants, “talked.” He claimed he had been swindled of his share by others who he said were involved.