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TK Boston SnnHay GIoEe Xpril 10, 1968 5T Detective Costs Now Exceed $1.5 Million Plymouth Loot Bt JAMES S. DOYLE Glob Wtthlartoa Bam Chief Postal Inspector Henry B. Montague first made the revelation before a closed-door session of a House appropriations subcommittee. "I had a check made the other day on the time devoted to this case and find that it comes out to about 104 man-years over the time since the case has been under investigation. "This would cost very close to $1.5 million, taking into consideration fringe benefits and other items of expense," he said.

Montague added that this actually represented the cost WASHINGTON The Post Offica Department has con-finned that it has spent more tnoney investigating the Plymouth Mail Robbery than the $1.5 million that was stolen. of "on an average about 30 men over the time it has been under He defended the expenditure by saying: "We feel because of the investigation which has been continuously under way by our inspectors that there has been a deterrent to some other crimes of that type." Montague's testimony was elicited by Rep. Silvio O. Conte (R-Mass.) during considerations of the 1967 Post inspector said that the Plymouth investigation has been completed and a report has been made to Atty. W.

Arthur Garrity in Boston. "Naturally, in an investigation of this kind we would have inspectors on it until it is taken to the Grand Jury and then to trial because new developments continue all the time." Montague's revelations concerning the mail robbery came after Conte reminded him: "During the questions last year on the Plymouth robbery, we discussed the possibility that the government might well end up spending more attempting to solve this crime than was taken in the robbery. "It was indicated then that expenses and the $1.5 million stolen might even out in the not too distant future. Has that happened?" The holdup took place on Rte. 3 in Plymouth the night of Aug.

14, 1962. The mail truck was en route to the South Postal Annex in Boston after making pickups on Cape Cod. A gang of four to seven men (the exact number has never been ascertained) one dressed in a police uniform halted the truck shortly after it had passed an exit ramp from the highway. Unknown to the driver, Patrick H. Schena, and his guard, William F.

Barrett, once they had passed the off-ramp, a detour had been placed on the highway, blocking traffic and rerouting it down the Plymouth ramp. Schena and Barrett were bound and gagged. They were forced to lie on the floor of the vehicle while it waj driven to pre-designated locations where parts of the loot were dropped off to the waiting members of the gang. Finally, the truck was abandoned on Rte. 128 in Randolph.

At 10 p.m., two hours after the robbery started, Schena and Barrett freed themselves and alerted police. NATIONALLY KNOWN MEN'S FINE SHOES SALE Ofhce budget. At the same time the chief at Of Numbers and Booze Great Savings r- "Wwmu- The Days of 'The Dutchman9 -Hardly the 'Good9 Old Days SPANISH MADRIDS Casual Boots Values for $14.95 Now $4.95 MEN'S SLIPPERS Values for $12.95 Now $5,95 BRITISH WALKER SHOES Values for $32.95 Now $16.95 BRITISH WALKERS CORFAMS Values for $29.95 Now $19,95 SAM SNEAD (Special Offer) IMPORTED GOLF SHOES $13,95 B0ST0NIAN MEN'S SHOES Values for $19.95 Now $5,95 roll for making regular col-as a very positive guy," my i of ten seen the Dutchman at several different locations inena sam. "it ne told you lections in downtown Manhat where he'd stay most fre something it was as good as done. You could sleep on it." quently at the old Endicott Hotel at Columbus av.

and 81st He also said, "The Dutch By WILLIAM BUCHANAN Glob Reporter 9 Those who hung out with Arthur Flegenheimer during the wild days of Prohibition never called him Arthur and seldom referred to him as Dutch. To his gun-toting, numbers collecting, speakeasy pals, Dutch Schultz. was known as The Dutchman. st. and at other times at his flat at 1212 Fifth av.

He hung around downtown too, mostly within half a mile of Times sq. man was ruthless. He hated a cheat or a liar." And then my friend went on to relate an incident he said he'd never forget and neither will I BRITISH WALKERS GRENADIER JAND SEWN (With Hand Sewn fronts) Values to $21.95 Now $14.95 tan, lives in Boston now, operates a small business and is entirely respectable. In fact, he said he hadn't thought about bis days with Dutch Schultz for quite tome time and I had to encourage him to reminisce. But first, in case you never heard of Arthur Flegenheimer, alias Dutch Schultz, he was Schultz was in trouble with after hearing about it.

"I remember once he caught After all, Dutch Schultz has Vippn flpart sinra ha etnnnorl the law often and early. As a young fellow he used to rob horse drawn laundry wagons pulling off bundles of clothes and then selling them. one of his collectors red-hand ed stealing $200. Two of the jfew bullets while dining with uutchman's strong-armers held the offender's hand on a table born in the Yorkville section of New York in 1900 and before he died in 1935 he had become one of the best known and feared racketeers in the friends at the Palace house in Newark, N.J., on Oct. 23, 1935 so why mention him now? Well, quite recently and without blinking an eye, the boss chopped four fineers off his right hand with a meat cleaver." You could sav the country.

His specialty was run I spent an evening with a feL low who used to do some col lecting for The Dutchman; Dutchman was a strict ning bootleg beer and whiskey 340 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON Open Evenings until 9 P.M. All Sales Final DUTCH SCHULTZ ruthless racketeer booze the Dutchman organized the window washers in New York and those who didn't join fell into bad luck. Their safety belts broke while they wera working on the 14th floor. Dutch Schultz was shot to death in that Newark restaurant and the fellow who was convicted of the murder completed his time 22 years in a New Jersey prison a year ago. I guess maybe the good old days weren't so good after alL especially if you stepped on land later the numbers racket.

This gentleman, who once My informant has lone since "I remember the Dutchman "When I first met the Dutchman he was sloppy and crude and I don't think he was college material. But he knew the street and could be cold bloodedly ruthless. In later years he became neater and a better dresser." For a while Schultz and a partner ran a gin mill on upper Third avenue and over the years a number of his competitors wound up shot full of holes, and usually in telephone booths. was on the Dutchman's pay' abandoned associations with such people as Nails Nathan, Lgs uiamond, iingers MuL doon, waxey Gordon. Mendv Weiss and other such charac ters, mostly because nearly all ol them are dead now.

but al Exercise Easy? It Can Be When so because he'a had a change Between the numbers and the wrong toes. ol fteart. Sears "It wasn't until the Dutch man realized there was a ereat "VVvi-i TV Tt tTiA deal of money in the Harlem STAR. GAIER' numbers racket that he moved in uptown," my friend contin Br CLAY R. POLLAN LIBRA ARIES MAR.

22 SEPT. 23 ued. "He just took over the policy racket from Madame St. Clair, because she had no real OCT. 23 JK Your Daily Activity GuJ According to ffie Stars.

'I To develop meisoge for Sunday, read words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign. l32-337-5' 9-22-39-43 '44-78-84-89 organization. And then he hired fellows like Bub Hulan, SCORPIO TAURUS APR. 21 1 SAVE Black Sammy and Malcolm Blue to make sure things went MAY 2) NOV. 22 -VJ 1 I Villi rail smoothly.

Dutch really hated 3 2- 8 -21-261 6-H-12-20 er trouble, but if trouble meant v) 53-67-69 C9-430-81 1 getting things done his way, GEMINI SAGITTARIUS Jl I IMUUI 61 Important 2Plon 63 Can i. 64 Be 65 Mod 66 Or 67 Be 63 Visit 69 Cooperotiy 70 Move 71 To 31 32 Grasp 33 A. 34 Confused 35 For 36 Condition 37 Pleasant 38 Today 39 Personal 40 Suggest 41Trv MAY 22 he was all for it. And Bub Hulan was a tall guy, tough i'23 As 21 Ess NOV. DEC 1 Relations 2 Teamwork 3 You 4Decepth 5 With Uv 70thett 8 Can 9 Don't 1 10 Undergo 11 Fully 12 Up if 13Fin 14 Influences 15 Changes JUNE 22 and he hurt you." 18-19-24-31 20 52-79-86 I Insisted on another coffee 27-66-68 72 Now 42 Problems CANCER CAPRICORN 43 Agreement! 73 Your and so my link with the New York underworld of the 30s Do 44 To DEC I JUNE 23 JULY 23 III -A mi continued to talk about a man JAM.

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in Brooklyn 4-14-25-30C with three or four of his boys. 85 Occur 45-57-62 VS 71-73-77 Sear "He liked the Cotton Club 56 Opportunity 86 Energetic 24 Probably 25 May 26Desirabl 27 Trip 1 28 Can 29 Your PISCES VIRGO in Harlem and occasionally AUG. 24 5 Your in 58 Which 88 Venture 59 Agreement 89Progres he'd be seen at parties at i SEPT. 22 MAR. 21 tis 30 Interfere ftOWiU vu Belter Florence Valentine's up near Lenox av.

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