Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1914 — BANDITS GET $5,000; LOCK UP CASHIER [ARTICLE]

BANDITS GET $5,000; LOCK UP CASHIER

Three Robbers Imprison Official in Vault, Loot Bank—Flee and Are wurrouncioss®» Spokane, Wash., May 19.—Three bandits who today locked the cashier of the State bank at Spangle, Wash., in the vault and escaped with $5,000, have been surrounded by a sheriff’s posse in the wood*, four miles from Waverly, Wash. a. -- . na k ~ - - v a* from Moscow, laano. ■O. W. Newlon, cashier, was alone in the bank when the three men entered. They covered him with pistols and forced him into the vault and locked him in. The robbers then locked the front doar, money in eight and walked out the back door. t Before entering the bank the robbers naa arranged Wrtn a garage owner to drive them into the country, ostensibly on a business trip. After the robbery the men walked to the garage and started off .in an automobile. When the cargot out and disappeared in the timber.