He fled to Buffalo, where he served six months in jail on a gun charge. Deported to Canada, he was acquitted in the bank robbery. A few months later, he was back in Buffalo assembling a crew for the high society heist. They were local crime commoners, not aristocratic crooks, including Ed Rogacki, William Cyner and brothers Eddie and Stanley (Kid Millionaire) Przybyl. The party attendees, including four of the seven robbers, reassembled in an Erie County courtroom in January 1930 for a first-degree robbery trial. The victims couldn’t finger most of the robbers, thanks to their masks. And wives, girlfriends and mothers of the defendants offered alibis, though an appeals court later labeled them “lamentably weak.” The four were convicted, and sentences meted out by Judge Frank Bret Thorn delivered the message that criminals ought not bedevil Buffalo’s well-heeled. Duke, Cyner, Rogacki and Eddie Przybyl all got life in prison, with slight variations — 20 to life for Przybyl, 30 to life for mastermind Duke.