Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1914 — Chalmers Bank Was Insured Against Loss by Burglary. [ARTICLE]

Chalmers Bank Was Insured Against Loss by Burglary.

Chalmers, Nov. 19.—The adjusters of the New Amsterdafn Casualty company and the Indiana Bankers’ association arrived here today, to adjust the loss sustained by the State Bank of Chalmers when the safe was blown by yeggmen early Wednesday morning. bank lost $2,289.60, but carried insurance to cover it. Besides the adjusters, Harry Webster, of Indianapolis, and James Anderson, of Chicago, two representatives of the William Burns detective agency, were here to make an investigation. William W. Weinhardt, of the Weinhardt secret service at Lafayette, wbo worked on the case yesterday learned that three of the gang left Chicago on the Monon passenger train that passed through this city at 8:45 p. m. Two of the party had

tickets, to Reynolds, and one to Brookston, but Detective Weinhardt learned that all left the train at Reynolds. He also learned that one of the men wore a blue cravanet, corresponding with the one found in the bank here after the robbery. The men after .leaving the train at Reynolds were seen to start toward this city, walking along the Monon railroad tracks. T t is now believed that the yeggs had a fourth member of the gang to wait for thenF in an automobile at the road crossing a mile north of town and after securing the booty, they walked to- the automobile and made their getaway. Mr. Weinhardt secured a good description ■of the crooks and it has been forwarded to the Chicago police.