Herbert Hasse

On a hot August afternoon in 1931, the life of 27-year-old Herbert Hasse, a male taxi driver from the Bronx, came to a violent and ambiguous end. His death was the final act in a frantic and bloody ninety-minute saga that began with a payroll robbery and turned into a sprawling, twelve-mile gun battle through the streets of New York City. The incident, which left a total of six people dead, including two police officers and a child, would raise questions about Hasse's role, with his name simulta ...

POLICE HOLD GUILT OF HASSE UNPROVED; Mulrooney in Report Asserts Evidence Taxi Man Was Aide of Gunmen Is Inconclusive. HE MAY HAVE BEEN COERCED Patterson Deplores Interest of Girls in Criminals and Seeks to Keep Them Away From Prisons. Statement on His Inquiry. Hasse Had Pistol, One Reported. Deplores Girls' Interest. (Published 1931)

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