savings institution

“Probably one-third of their loot was taken from financial institutions in the metropolis,” the New Yorker wrote of Leslie and his associates in 1927, “their largest hauls being the theft of $786,879 from the Ocean National Bank in 1869, and $2,747,000 in cash and securities from the Manhattan Savings Institution … in 1878.”

Those would pale in comparison to the famous robbery of the Manhattan Savings Institution in October 1878.

She listed credit card debt between $5,001 and $50,000 and similar debt owed to a savings institution.

His defining moment came in 1878, when he broke the Manhattan Savings Institution case, in which several masked men, led by Jimmy Hope — a prominent member of the Rogues’ Gallery — made off with $2.75 million in securities and cash.

He was president of the Rotary, a charter member of the Enterprise Club, president of the horticulture society and director of the Savings Institution of Sandy Spring for 50 years.