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'Paul Jaworski' was the leader of the "Flatheads" gang, who committed the first armored car robbery on March 11 1927. ^{[1] [2]} The group stole over $100,000 from an armored vehicle on Bethel Road, 7 miles outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The bandits placed a landmine under the roadbed, and made off with the money that was on its way to Coverdale for the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company. The gang was also known for the payroll robbery of the Detroit News business offices in 1928. Jaworski is related to Stephen Jaworski who now leads the Flatheads gang.
Paul Jaworski was executed via electric chair for a separate payroll robbery which resulted in a murder in Pennsylvania.

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★ The Great Detroit News Payroll Robbery

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1. http://www.atmmarketplace.com/news_story.htm?i=16578
2. http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/mar11.htm

1. Paul Kavieff, ''The Violent Years: Prohibition and the Detroit Mobs (Gangsters and Rum Runners)''
Barricade Books (2001). ISBN 1-56980-210-6