The area was cordoned off with roadblocks and checkpoints in the biggest manhunt in New England history. But Gilday was not found.

That night, Gilday's daughter spoke on WHAV in Haverhill: "Dad, this is Sally. Please give yourself up. We are all worried about you. You know it is the only thing to do. You always told Michael [her brother] and me crime doesn't pay. Please, for me, for my birthday- give yourself up."

Saturday, September 26:

The news of the robbery and manhunt is filtering off into even the smallest burgs of northern New England. The police are flooded with tips on the whereabouts of the suspects. The news has now broken around the country. And in New York, a writer for Newsweek is adding adjectives to the final version of the capsulized story which will appear on the newsstands here Tuesday:

"It sounded at first like a throwback to the Depression days of Bonnie and Clyde: three men and two women, with guns blazing, making their getaway from the Brighton branch of Boston's State Street Bank and Trust Co. with $26,000 in stolen cash. Patrolman Walter A. Schroeder, 42, a hero cop and father of nine, tried to head them off- only to be cut down and left dying by a burst of gunfire. When the police were able to piece together what had happened last week, the bank heist appeared to be a bold and bloody new departure in radical-student lawlessness."

Several questions, however, have arisen, the major one concerning whether this was case of three ex-convicts snaring two allegedly radical Brandeis girls into a bank job against the system or two radicals carrying on the revolution with the help of three experienced ex-convicts.

If the girls were "radicals," intent on financing the revolution through bank robberies, what other radical groups did they have connections with besides the strike center and women's lib? Why would the girls steal $26,000 (less a split for Lefty Gilday, who according to the current theory of the police, was hired on for his expertise)? Couldn't the people who raised thousands to run the Brandeis strike center have raised, or if that failed, even embezzled, at least that much? How did Stanley Bond fit in as a 26-year-old student (who many students said "looked and acted like a cop") among younger radicals?

If the ex-convicts had, perhaps, intimidated the students into the robbery, the most basic question was how?

And why had the police not followed up their charges of a larger conspiracy with evidence? They had Valeri under intensive questioning for two days. According to one FBI man he was "scared shit and couldn't talk fast enough." What's the motive? What's the link? Is McNamara trying to make the student strike center and the universities the scapegoat for a bank robbery that was barely noted until the wounded officer died and theCommissioner held his press conference?

In a sworn FBI affidavit made public today, Valeri said the same five who allegedly robbed the bank had also burglarized and fire-bombed the Newburyport Armory to get weapons and "disrupt the military."

Major Gen. Timothy J. Regan, adjutant general of Massachusetts, said "positively no guns were taken" in the September 20 fire-bombing of the Newburyport Armory, although ammunition was.

Portland, Ore., police reported today that Susan Saxe had been positively identified as the same Susan Saxe who had purchased $500 worth of weapons from an Oregon gun store on September 15. They also said she was seen leaving her Portland apartment carrying a "heavy suitcase" on September 18 and had not been seen there since.

The Boston Herald-Traveler today reported that Stanley Bond was the "founder" of the gang.

" A lot of people thought Bond was an agent. I don't. I think he was crazy, but a lot of people here tolerated him. It was the whole movement thing of accepting people for what they are. I mean, can't you think of people at Harvard who tolerated someone just on ideological grounds and let him hang around no matter how obnoxious?" a Brandeis student

Stanley Bond is, to say the least, an enigma. An ex-convxict attending college for the first time, at least five years older than his contemporaries, short hair ... it takes a while to adjust. He started at Brandeis in February with, among other things, a course in French existentialism. He was a man who wrote Ivric poetry and tried to keep one hand into everything. What would you be like, if you were attending college for the first time at the age of 26?

"He was very passive and uninvolved until the Kent State shootings. And then he made a complete reversal and collected money and recruited people to react to Kent State," said a library co-worker.