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True Crime Historian

The Count Of Gramercy Park

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

True Crime, Performing Arts, Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture

4.5720 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

The Slippery Scoundrel Gerald Chapman

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Episode 384 tells the story of a so-called gentleman thief who fearlessly went for the big scores, even while the object of a nation-wide man-hunt. This is another action-packed episode loaded with gunfights, jailbreaks, courtroom breakdowns, and all kinds of shenanigans. Act III starts with a rather odd, melodramatic feature story published while this creep was waiting for the hangman. 

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New York City, October 24th, 1921. Frank Haverick, chauffeur of the mail truck, a Ford machine carrying post office number 2306,

0:53.3

left City Hall post office soon after 10 o'clock and started

0:57.2

up Broadway under orders to make a mail train departing at 1040. After he had progressed

1:03.8

a few blocks northward, he observed a touring car with two men and a driver tailing him. He thought nothing of this until just before he reached

1:13.4

Leonard Street, the touring car drew alongside and two young men wearing caps with long peaks, leveled

1:21.5

revolvers at his head. Drive down Leonard Street or die right where you are, one of the men shouted.

1:29.7

Leonard Street, at the point where the robbery took place, is ill-lighted and virtually deserted at

1:35.6

night. According to Havernik, the touring car cut in ahead of him so that he was compelled

1:41.9

to swerve or crash into it. When he slowed down,

1:46.0

one of the bandits jumped for the running board, placed a revolver at his head, and compelled

1:52.0

him to drive into Leonard Street. The man with the gun shouted,

1:57.0

Slow up or we'll fill you full of lead, quick now, don't get gay or you'll get this, indicating the revolver.

2:04.3

By that time, this bandit and another had jumped from the touring car to the mail truck,

2:09.4

and two revolvers were pressed against Haverick's side.

2:13.1

Haverick threw out the clutch and put on the brake to slow down,

2:16.6

but the boss bandit

2:17.6

rasped, go ahead and turn west onto Leonard Street.

2:21.6

Haverick said he glanced up Broadway, hoping to see a policeman, but he didn't see a soul.

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