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The sun was still lolling its way toward New York when four streetlight shadows slinked into Washington Square Park and fixed sidelong eyes on the mansion that was their mark.
One by one, the men crept toward the brownstone at 19 Washington Square North and disappeared down its curbside coal chute. For seven hours that morning — April 2, 1922 — they huddled in the cellar, unseen by the silk-stocking homeowners, Albert and Mary Shattuck, and their gaggle of servants.
Read the full story at http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/frenchman-leads-1922-manhattan-jewelry-heist-inspires-interpol-article-1.3580278
