1510 hours
`` Attention all cars and all stations , this is Washington Criminal Control . '' The new voice paused , and across the continent , troopers on every thruway , control station , checkpoint and relay block , reached for clipboard and pen . `` Washington Criminal Control continuing , all cars and all stations , special attention to all units east of the Mississippi . At 1510 hours this date , two men held up the First National Bank of Wilmington , Delaware , and escaped with an estimated one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars . A bank guard and two tellers , together with five bank customers were killed by these subjects using automatic weapon fire to make good their escape . They were observed leaving the scene in a late model , white-over-green Travelaire sedan , license unknown . A car of the same make , model and color was stolen from Annapolis , Maryland , a short time prior to the holdup .