Five or six men (accounts vary) dressed in dark business suits got out of the car, leaving a driver behind the wheel with the engine still running.
The robbers demanded to speak to assistant cashier H. E. Leinberger, seemingly aware that he was the only one who could open the bank vault door.
[1] Edward Doll, interrogated for a week by several FBI agents after his capture near St. Petersburg, Florida, on February 14, 1934, confessed to his role in the robbery and said six others participated in the crime.
During the Lincoln Bank robbery, Bentz’ grabbed cash from the tellers’ cages and used a revolver to warn off spectators as the gang made their getaway.
Doll said Stone may have operated a slot machine racket with Gus Winkler in Chicago before he killed him for reasons not mentioned in the memo.
Old Charlie: A Chicago hoodlum with a long criminal record, Doll was unable or unwilling to provide his true name, but said he was known to Harvey Bailey and possibly George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Kathryn Kelly and "George Bates" (Most likely Doll was referring to career criminal Albert Bates).
They burned the documents they saw as worthless, including mortgages and deeds, and put some of the paper in an inner tube, but were unable to find it when they searched the area later on.
The Liberty Bonds, Doll told the FBI, were sold to Dewey Berlovich, a road contractor in Des Moines, Iowa.
According to the memo, “Berlovich sold $15,000 worth of the bonds in Des Moines Iowa, paying (Doll) eight-two (82) percent of their face value.
The Syndicate paid $21,000 in total to Doll's gang for the bonds, as well as $10,000 to a Nebraska prosecutor and $10,000 to an investigator with the Secret Six, a Chicago crime-fighting group, for their help with the deal.