The Great Mimico Mail Robbery some 91-years ago was like a scene from an old Al Capone Hollywood movie which still remains unsolved today.

The armed stick-up and police dragnet for three well-dressed, fedora-wearing robbers made major headlines back in March 1929.

It began when a truck rushing mail from the Mimico Post Office to the Canadian National Railways, on Judson St., was heisted by men who pulled a car in front of the truck as it turned left under the bridge from Royal York Rd.

“Come on, stick ’em up!” one bandit is said to have yelled.

The truck was driven by Harold Douglas, 19, whose dad Thomas, had been ferrying mail from Long Branch, New Toronto, Mimico Beach and Mimico to the train station for 17-years. The three men in the truck were ordered to lay on the floor of the car.

The robbers were in search of a mail bag containing gold bullions, which they were told would be in the truck. They opened a number of bags only to find about $5.

The victims had guns pointed at them, their hats drawn over their heads and driven around for several hours before being dropped off at High Park. They hurried to the Cowan Ave. police station to file a report.

Soon a massive manhunt was underway involving Mimico Police, Toronto Police, provincial cops and Post Office investigators.

“I don’t think they were foreigners. They spoke like Canadians or Americans; not like Polacks or Italians. But then you can’t tell,” one of the victims told police, describing the men as seasoned professionals.

It wasn’t long before police arrested John Miller and Fred Haight, both 28, in the U.S.

The career bandits had escaped from Toronto Brick and Tile Company, then the Mimico Reformatory and later Toronto South Detention Centre, on Horner Ave., while serving time for weapons charges and attempted murder of a Windsor cop.

Soon George Brown, 24, was arrested in Orillia, along with George Little, in Detroit.

Police learned the heist was hatched while the men were serving time with a former postal employee who had masterminded several large mail truck robberies.

A trial for the high-profile robbery and kidnapping began in mid-May and in two weeks a jury ruled they were not-guilty due to circumstantial evidence. Charges were dropped against the men and the incident remains unsolved in police blotters today.