The $1,500,000 Jeweler's Exchange Robbery Bowery, Manhattan, New York November 25, 1935

William "Dummy" Taylor was a career criminal who specialized in theft of furs and jewels. The culmination of his larceny was an attempt to rob the Jeweler's Exchange in Manhattan's Bowery. My e-book looks at Taylor's life in crime, which continued into the early 1960s. On one occasion he was responsible for the deaths of two of his young relatives. Taylor was one of six men who participated in the Jeweler's Exchange heist of November 25, 1935. Another of them was Philip "Crooked Neck" Ziegler. Ziegler used a pass key to enter the loft of the Exchange in the early morning hours of November 25.