Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1915 — CASHIER ESCAPES SHOOTS TWO BANDITS [ARTICLE]

CASHIER ESCAPES SHOOTS TWO BANDITS

Bank Official, Locked in Vault, Goto Free and Recovers Booty and Alao Captures Robbers.

Grant, Okla., Dec. 27.—After having been thrown into the (bank vault with has hands tied by two youths who today robbed the Bank of Grant of $4,000, Cashier Webb slipped out of bis bonds, intercepted the bandits and shot and badly wounded both. The robbers, whose names officers gave as Claud Jones, 23, and Arthur McFarland, 17, were taken to jail at ' Hugo tonight. Physicians said Jones probably would die. • A customer who was in the bank when the robbers entered, was driven with the cashier into the vault, the door of which the youths could not lock. Webb loosened 'his hands, and as the bandits left the building he pushed out the vault door and obtained a shotgun. Taking a short cut to the railroad station Webb concealed himself (behind a pile of ties. As the bandits approached Webb ordered them to put up their hands, '{hey failed to obey and the cashier opened fire. The money was recovered.