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December 22, 193333.

Making known their arrival with a shot fired past the manager,

four middle-aged bandits marched into the branch of the Calvert Bank at Baltimore

and Carey Streets today and seized $14,100, with which they escaped in a car driven by a fifth

member of the gang who had remained on the pavement as a lookout. The bank, occupying a small building at the northwest corner of Baltimore and Cary Streets,

opened for business at 9 o'clock, and a few minutes later a Dodge sedan moved slowly along Baltimore Street

and came to a halt at the curb in front of the door. Four men stepped out and walked quietly into the bank.

A customer, Charles H. Fowler, was at the window of a cage in the center of the office.

The manager, Simon Kemp, was in a small office near the door.

Counting out a $160 payroll for Fowler was Albert G.

Satterfield and in another cage, going over accounts, was John B. Westendorf. A boy was standing near Fowler.

Leading the bandits was a man about 45 years old, short and heavily built. He raised a pistol in his

hand almost before anyone had observed the entry of the quartet and sent a bullet through the top

of a partition surrounding the manager's office. The bullet whizzed over Kemp's head and buried

itself in the opposite corner of the cage.

A second bandit, about 40 years old, then moved forward and vaulted over the wall of the cage

and was followed by another. All of the bandits were then displaying pistols.

The pair who had climbed over the low partition paused only

long enough to pick out a suitable waste paper basket from beneath a counter, while the man who had

fired the shot shouted, stick them up, I'm not kidding. He walked to the door of the manager's office,

and with a motion of his gun directed his

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