CRIME: The Elder & the Bandit

CRIME The Elder & the Bandit Mild-mannered Charles A. Crist peered put of his cashier's cage last week to see a young man with his face wrapped in a red bandanna pointing a revolver at him. The Maybrook (N.Y.) National Bank was making up a $30,000 railroad workers' payroll. Out of the corner of his eye 58-year-old Crist saw two other muffled men with menacing revolvers. Said the first young man: "This is a stickup." Crist, an elder of the First Reformed Church in nearby Walden, retorted: "You go to hell," bounced to one side and pressed his foot...

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