Curry, described by one source as a "dapper and smiling Negro," was released from a Georgia prison in October, 1961. He visited Nussbaum in Buffalo, New York, using money Nussbaum had sent him.

On the morning of Friday, December 15, 1961, Curry, wearing a red corduroy cap and disguised with a black crepe hair moustache, walked through the front door of the Lafayette National Bank in Brooklyn, New York, brandishing a pair of .45 caliber revolvers. Wilcoxson walked in through the back door and killed bank guard Henry Kraus with four rounds from a .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun.

Curry, startled by Wilcoxson's machine gun fire, allowed a patron to flee the bank through its front door. The bank customer summoned a police officer directing traffic at an intersection about 200 yards from the bank.

Quickly regaining some of his composer, Curry bagged about $32,000 from the teller cages.

Nussbaum, on the look out in the bank parking lot, sat in a station wagon with a machine gun mounted on a tripod in the back compartment. Seeing the foot patrolman approaching the bank's entrance, Nussbaum used a walkie-talkie two-way radio to alert Wilcoxson.

Inside the bank, Wilcoxson shifted the machine gun from his right hand to his left, crouched low and fired at the police officer as he entered the outer doors of the bank foyer. Rookie Police Patrolman Salvatore Accardi was blown backwards and fell to the sidewalk. A round from the machine gun, slowed by the bank’s double set of thick glass doors, lodged in Accardi's badge. The patrolman was bruised and cut by shattered glass but alive.

 Curry dropped $10,000 on the floor as he and Wilcoxson ran out of the bank. Stepping over the fallen Accardi, the bandits jumped into a stolen Oldsmobile parked curbside and raced off. Nussbaum followed in the station wagon. The robbery and both shootings took only 90 seconds.

On February 13, 1962, Curry was the first of the now notorious "Wilcoxson" gang captured. He was arrested by the FBI in front of his parent’s house in Brooklyn, New York. Curry was the only one of the robbers who did not pled guilty, opting instead for a jury trial. Curry’s first trial began May 13, 1963, and ended in mistrial June 18, 1963, after presiding Judge Matthew T. Abbruzzo was unexpectedly hospitalized with an infection.

At trial, Curry admitted he was acquainted with Nussbaum and Wilcoxson but insisted that another negro named "Streets" was the third bandit. Nussbaum and Wilcoxson, both white, pled guilty earlier and testified at trial against Curry, describing in detail the part he played in the planning and execution of the Brooklyn robbery.

A jury convicted Peter Columbus Curry, Jr., of murder and bank robbery on December 23, 1963, ending a seven week trial.

On February 8, 1964, Curry was sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole in 1972. According to retired Patrolman Accardi, Curry died in prison of natural causes.

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