The 1926 Elizabeth mail truck robbery and Watchung manhunt · the day after the robbery; the cordon closes on the mountains
As printed: CITIZENS WARNED TO STAY INDOORS DURING MAN HUNT
ContextElizabeth is a city in northern New Jersey, a few miles from the wooded Watchung ridge that runs west and north of it; the state police force, in which Major Mark O. Kimberling is a senior officer, was created five years earlier and worked with county sheriffs. United States mail trucks carried registered mail and currency between post offices and railroad stations.
New Britain Herald · New Britain, Connecticut · page 1 · View the page at the Library of Congress
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