g g SUNDAY. JANUARY 27. 1963 - . MEDFOHP MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOBP. OHEGON -TT
Brink's Robbery Still Baffles FBI, County and City Policemen
r ... f . . . 111. hnndils to be that of a Brink's em-
ueietw." . .
(Editor's not - A gang
of highly professional
crooks last month pulltd
on of Chicsgo's slickest
holdups in years - th pr-cision-pltnntd
looting of
Brink's armorsd truck. Th '
loot was in th hundreds of
thousands of dollars and th
gang ascaptd. Following if
an in-depth report of th
mechanics of a grand lar-
cany.) . '
By MORT J. SULLIVAN
United Preis International
Chicago JPB At 5:45 p.m.
Christmas eve, a Brink's
armored truck pulled up in
front of a suburban bowling
alley on its last money pick
up of the day.
At 3:50, the truck was loot
ed of $250,000 in Christmas
eve collections,
What happened in those
five minutes? The Federal
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HIJACKED TRUCK Brink's Co.-armored Plalnes.' F.' Neuberger,1 one of the two
truck is shown in the brickyard where it Brink's guards, -was found handcuffed in
was taken after being hi-jacked by a gang the backseat of the truck. The gang escaped
of masked gunmen near suburban Des. with $250,000. (UPI)
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CP Building Permits
Valued at $695,900
Central Point Building
permits for construction total
ing $895,000 were issued by
the city of Central Point dur
ing 1062.
The total included permits
for 69 single family dwellings
valued at $647,900, one two-
family dwelling at $16,000,
and one four-family dwelling
at $32,000.
The 1062 figures represent
ed a boost of more than 50
per cent over 1981, when per
mits for new construction to
taled $412,000. Constructed in
1961 were 42 single family
homes, two two-family homes
and one motel.
Building permits ' issued
during December, 1962, were
to Virgil Ladd, dwelling, 102
Princess way, $10,000; Holly
and Logan, dwelling,' 1000
Comet ave., $10,000; W. L.
Moore, construction, 209
Kings way, $11,000; W. L
Moore, construction, 730
South Fifth St., $10,500; Dale
Bush, dwelling, 100 Princess
way, $8,000; McGonagle con.
struction, dwelling, 903 Comet
ave., $10,000; McGonagle con.
struction, dwelling, 211 Wind.
sor way, $10,000; Lloyd
Thornton, dwelling, 415 Ninth
St., $5,000.
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Medford
Bureau of Investigation,
Brink's, the Cook county
sheriff s police and the Chi
cago police department are
still trying to find out,
Who did It? Police don't
know - except that the hood.
ed bandits who commandeer
ed the armored truck, hand.
cuffed veteran driver Frank
Neuburgcr, 57, and whisked
37 money bags into a waiting
car were all -stars.
They were the top men In
their chosen field of crime,
investigators said - the one'
shot-for-a-blg-s core breed
And investigators fear their
gamble may have paid off,
The Christmas eve heist
ranked as Chicago's biggest
hijacking in recent years. In
precision and planning, in
vestigators compared it to the
$1.5 million Plymouth, Mass.,
mail truck robbery last Aug
14 and the historic $1.2 mil
lion Boston Brinks robbery
in 195Q.
Christmas eve around Chi
cago last month was a snowy,
blustery day. It was a busy
one tor Newburgcr, a Chi.
cagoan, and his partner. Wil
liam Link, 40, of suburban
Prospect Heights.
I heir armored truck wound
methodically through north
west Cook "county suburbs
and the northern fringe of
Chicago, stopping at at least
two banks and 40 business
places.
At each stop they took on
money - more money than
usual because of the holiday.
Both men gave passing
thoughts to the day and
smiled in the knowledge that,
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VIEWS EMPTY TRUCK Brink's guard William Link looks
into his empty armored truck after it was robbed of $250,000
near suburban Des Plaines. (UPI)
Capitol Memo
State Gas Chamber
Having Impact on
1963 Legislature
HUBERT J. SOHER
To Discuss Economy
State's Economy
To Be Discussed
By SF Consultant
What's ahead for the Ore
gon economy will be discussed
by Hubert J. Sober, nationally-known
San Francisco in
dustrial consultant, at the
luncheon meeting of the Med
ford Kiwanis club Wednesday,
Jan. 30.
The speaker recently con
cluded a onc-year-long survey
of the economy of the state,
and his recently published re
port, entitled "Oregon Today
and Tomorrow," will provide
the theme material for his
speech.
His discussion will include
a review of the significant fac
tors creating opportunities for
continued growth in southern
Oregon.
Sober has had a long career
in the field of industrial and
financial consulting and in
vestments, and is the senior
partner in the consulting firm
of Hubert J. Sober Company,
which lists many of the na
tion's leading business and fi
nancial firms among its cli
ents. Formtr Editor
A former financial editor
of the San Francisco Chron
icle, he later became a gen
eral partner In the stock
brokerage firm of Manhcim,
Dlbbcrn and company, San
Francisco. Following his re
tirement in 1928, he became
public relations director for
the Bank of America in 1931,
and two years later re-enter
ed the investment banking
field as a partner of H. R.
Baker and company., which
merged in 1945 Into Walson,
Hoffman and Goodwin, mem
bers of the New York Stock
Exchange.
In 1953 he was appointed
by President Eisenhower to a
team of 55 American business
men to study the Foreign Aid
Program, and was assigned to
Belgium, Holland and Luxem
burg. He recently returned
from an extensive European
trip, where he studied the im
pact of the Erimpean Common
Market on the affairs of east
ern Europe.
He has been a frequent
speaker before the Common
wealth Club of California in
San Francisco, one of the fore
most civic and business for
ums of the West Coast.
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By ZAN STARK
Salem - IUPD - The cyanide
caprice associated witn tne
Oregon aas chamber is having
its impact on
i i the 1983 legis-
I . ' l lature. Sen.
Don Winner
(D - Portland)
has submitted
an -anti- death
penalty bill,
and proposed
that persons
sen tenced to
strk 1 1 f e be re
quired to stay in prison at
least 15 years.
Sen. Thomas Mahoney (D-
Portland) introduced a bill to
make it harder to commute
life or death sentences. Ma-
honey's plan would require
supreme court approval be
fore a governor could grant a
pardon or commutation. The
Portland . senator said he
wanted to make a life sen
tence mean something, and he
wanted to take pressure off a
governor
. Some of the emotional fer
vor may have been dampened
by the stay of Jeannace June
Froeman s Jan. 29 date witn
death
But Larry West Shipley, 21,
of McMinnville, is scheduled
to enter the gas chamber on
Feb. 28
A plan to appeal Shipley's
case to the U.S. Supreme
Court already has been an
nounced by the American
Civil Liberties Union.
It was Miss Freeman's sec
ond stay. An appeal for Ship
ley could result in a stay for
him.
There is a similarity in both
the Freeman and Shipley
cases.
Miss Freeman's companion
in crime and mother of the
two children killed, Mrs
Gertrude Nunez Jackson, was
sentenced to life in prison.
Shipley's companion in the
slaying of 16-ycar-old Linda
Jean Stevens, Glen Douglas
Dixon, was convicted of first
degree murder and sentenced
to lite
Many legislators and of
ficials arc on record in opposi
Hon to the death penalty. But
the voters have disagreed.
Gov. Mark Hatfield, Atty
Warden Clarence T. Gladden
have openly opposed execution.
In 1958 the people voted
276,487 to 264,434 against
abolishing the death penalty -a
12,000 vote margin.
. ...
The voters did abolish the
death penalty - by a slim 157
votes -- in 1914. A series of
brutal murders followed, and
in 19:10 the death penalty was
reinstated - by 17,000 votes.
The hangman claimed 40
lives in Oregon before the gas
chamber was built in 1937.
Since then 18 persons have
taken their last breath in the
tiny chamber at the state pent
tentiary - the latest on Aug,
20, 1962, when Leeroy San-
ford McGahuey was executed
for the 1961 slaying of an infant.
Former Gov. Robert Holmes
commuted three death sen
commuted three death sen
tences and the gas chamber
was unused for seven years
prior to McGahuey s execu
tion.
The pattern seems the same.
Preceding each scheduled ex
ecution there is a last-minute
frantic scurry to appeal, to
win a stay, to fight for time,
to hope for commutation.
Each pending execution
sweeps a tide of public reac
tion into the governor's office.
There are letters, personal
visits, tearful pleas.
Each time a stay is granted
the tide recedes, only to come
back again as the next execu
tion date ncars.
The Freeman and Shipley
cases cannot help but affect
legislative reaction.
Writer of Hit Songs
Dies in New York
New York - (HIT) - Otto A,
Harbach, famed Broadway
librettist who wrote the lyrics
for such all time hits a
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes'
and "One Alone," died in bed
at his Manhattan apartment
Thursday.
Harbach, 89, wrote the
words to more than 1.000
songs and the lyrics of numer
ous opcrattas, including "Des
ert Song," "No, No, Nanette,"
Gen. Robert Y. Thornton, and "The Firefly," and "Roberta."
for the kids, Christmas day
would be a white one.
Neuburger, with Brink's 19
years, pulled the steel plated,
bullet-proof truck to a stop
in front of the River Rand
Bowling Alley in Des Plaines.
Neuburger settled back in the
driver's seat and scanned the
passing throng of last minute
Christmas shoppers -while
Link, his gun drawn, left the
truck.
All three doors of the ve
hicle opened suddenly. Too
suddenly. . .
Handcuff Drivtr .
"All in a flash," Neuburgcr
told investigators later, some
men grabbed him, pushed
him to the floor, handcuffed
his arms behind his back and
put a. gunny sack over his
head. .
The next thing he realized
was that it was quiet. After
some squirming, he managed
to get the sack off his head.
He was in a brlcKyara, a mue
from the bowling alley.
'It took less than three
minutes," he said.
As the snow continued to
fall, Neuberger made his way
to a warehouse and called police.
Neuberger said three hood
ed men wearing black, zip
pered jackets accosted him in
the truck,
Sao 4 Gunmen
Other witnesses reported
seeing as many as six persons,
four gunmen and the drivers
of the two escape cars.
All the valuables in the
truck were taken, police said.
The gunmen left in two cars,
one a 1961 blue Pontiac and
the other a yellow Ford, be
lieved stolen.
A statement by Neuburger
opened up one of the few new
avenues of investigation.
"The y , m us t have had
keys," he said. He said this
was the only way the three
doors could have opened
simultaneously.
Authorities turned their at
tention to a northwest side
public garage where the truck
had been parked nightly with
three other Brink's vehicles
for the past six years.
might have gone to the garage
nri taken impressions of keys
from which duplicates were
made to open the truexs
doors.
Keys to the stored trucKS
were left in the doors of the
vehicles to conform to tire
department reguiauu... pa
rage owner Lynn Knoth said.
He said it was possible for
someone to walk into the
anH make impressions
of the keys while the atten
tion of the aucnaant on uui,
was distracted.
Keys, Chief Clua
Aside from the key clue,
authorities admitted they had
little else to go on.
A fingerprint lifted from
one of the truck doors proved
nlnvec.
Lie tests administered to
both Neuburger ana -init
confirmed ineir accuums ui
the robbery.
Neither of them had ever
been robbed before, nor ever
fired a gun in anger.
Brink's ordered a top-to.
bottom rehauling of its se
curity system, but would
make no statement about the
robbery or the exact amount
taAu' parties to the investi
gation operated on the theory
that the bandits were pro.
fessionals who prepared a
minute by - minute timeablo
and followed it completely.
The quick, bloodless suc
cess indicated months of prep
arations and rehearsals, they
said.
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