CRIMINAL CHIEF.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 110, 9 April 1926, Page 9

CRIMINAL CHIEF.

AND “TIGER GIRL.” CAN A HUSBAND TELL? NEW YORK, March 31. If his wife, known as the “Tiger Girl,” is released unconditionally, Richard Wliitteniore, the American bandit and leader of one of tho biggest hold-up gangs in the country, promises to unfold a story of crime that will astonish the world. Whittemoro, his wife, and a dozen other men, the police allege, have confessed to iiold-ups and thefts in various cities totalling a quarter or a million sterling. They were captured here in a big raid a couple of days ago. It is stated that Wliitteniore has been identified as the participant in three murders in three different States. Wliitteniore had plans completed to carry out a jewel robbery which one of tho gang estimates would have netted over £200,000. Many cases which have baffled tho police for over a year are now solved, detectives declare. He is a young man of stylish appearanco and courteous manners. Police declare that Wliittemorc’s system of crime is so perfect that it would he a menace to public safety to reveal it. They have at present only the outlino of his system, but they declare that now that all tho directing minds of tho network organisation lie built up are in custody, the details will soon be unravelled. Whittemoro is declared to he the Raffles of America, and his short hut energetic career furnishes one of the most astonishing chapters in the history of American crime.