People v. Kress

About twelve-thirty o’clock on the afternoon of August 21, 1934, the operator and men in charge of one of the armored trucks of the United States Trucking Company were held up in front of the office of the Rubel Ice Company at Bay Nineteenth street and Cropsey avenue in the borough of Brooklyn, city of NewJYork, and robbed of $427,950 in cash contained in ten separate bags which they were transporting for various banks.

In the fall of 1938, John J. (Archie) Stewart, who also had various aliases, told the authorities that nine men besides himself committed the crime. At that time, three of…