Ellis the new news. Howie did not know any more about big job. He was not listening to the gossip and the rumors.
Ellis planned later to get the police to help him. He hoped that they could stop the big job and capture some if not all of the gang. That would be a whopping big success. Ellis wanted to learn more about the job and visit the warehouse headquarters to see what else he could learn. One night he drove north and parked several blocks from the hideout.
Slowly he walked along the railroad tracks to the warehouse. Carefully he got to a wall and came across to where some windows were. He went past four of them looking inside to complete darkness. The next one peered into a lighted office room. The gang were mulling about drinking coffee and eating food. They were talking about many things but the big bank job was on all of their lips. Comments about the bank’s rooms, vault, security force, where their cars were to be, how they would get, load, and remove the loot, and who would be where were some of the talked about subjects. Their planning was still being done. For nearly an hour, Ellis stood \there quiet and looked in the dirty window at the gang’s meeting. He decided he better get gone. So he returned to his car and left. For sure the robbery was going to happen. Tisha would likely provide him with more information. He returned to his place, took a shower, ate some food and went to bed running all of this through his mind trying to create a plan that would work. He went to the warehouse five more nights, watched, and listened. He learned more by being there. Meetings with Tisha also gave wanted facts. The date of the robbery was finally known. Elis met with Police Chief Harry Marsh, told him of the caper, and requested that he provide undercover policemen at the bank to thwart the robbery.