Trail's End

After Bank Robbers Joseph Nolen, his brother Ballard and Elmer Schuer broke out of Lewisburg, Pa.'s federal penitentiary, they stole four cars, ran through and around Pennsylvania police roadblocks, stabbed, kidnaped, looted and finally, in a Philadelphia suburb, held a family captive for 19 hours (TIME, Sept. 22). Then they headed for Scranton, took a wrong turn, came to New York instead. When they ran short of cash, they staged a three-minute raid on a Bronx bank, got $12,680. Early one morning this week, eleven days after the escape, 31 New York police, armed with tear gas, a tommy gun, service revolvers, broke into a seventh-floor uptown apartment. On a bed stood Joseph Nolen, naked to the waist, one hand behind his back. Crouched behind a dresser with a revolver was Ballard. Schuer, terrified, hid under the bed with a woman. Two other women hid behind a bathroom shower curtain. As Joseph; whipped out a revolver he had in his belt, police opened up. When the shooting was over, the two Nolens lay dead and Detective Philip La Monica fatally wounded. Another detective was seriously wounded. Schuer emerged meekly from his hiding place to end one of the biggest manhunts since the days of John Dillinger.

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