Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1919 — ROBBERS OBTAINED $1,500 CASH IN MOROCCO HAUL. [ARTICLE]

ROBBERS OBTAINED $1,500 CASH IN MOROCCO HAUL.

It has been learned that the bandits who entered the Farmers bank at Morocco last Tuesday night obtained *51,500 in cash in addition to the $25,000 worth of Liberty Bonds, after cutting all telephone and telegraph wires leading to the city. lit has been discovered Jhat only unregistered bonds were taken, the bandits carefully separating others from a larger number that were found in the bank vault proper, which is not connected with the safely deposit vault. The securities, lowever, belonged to individual dejositors and none, as far as is known was insured. The bonds were laying loose in the vault, it is said, making it necessary only for the robbers to blow open the vault door to give them access to the >ooty. From the method in which the safe was forced it is presumed that nitroglycerin was used. No tools of any kind were left by the intruders, and there was nothing to give a clew to their indentity. William Archibald, the cashier, made the discovery of the loss when lie went to the twd-story brick building, in which the bank housed, to open up for business Tuesday. Outside of the damage to the vault door there was little to indicate that the jank had been entered. Papers in the vault had been disarranged very ittle, contrary to the general rule m holdups. The $1,500 in money taken was m a small outside the vault. This contained only a small part of the bank’s assents and it is presumed that it was blown open after the vault had been entered. Nothing but the moneywas removed from it. How the robbers escaped is not known. They may have made their way from Morocco in an automobile, or may have taken refuge in some obscure part of the surrounding country, later leaving on a train from ftpme small station. Some persons hold the latter theory.