Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1920 — ROBBERS LOOT CULVER BANK [ARTICLE]

ROBBERS LOOT CULVER BANK

SHERIFF WOODWORTH NOTIFIED TO BE ON OUTLOOK FOR FLEEING ROBBERS Sheriff True* D. Woodworth was notified Wednesday evening to be on the lookout for a robber in a big black and yellow automobile, who was fleeing., from Culver, after taking part in robbing the Exchange Bank, a private financial institution at Culver, which was held up and robbed by five masked bandits at 10:00 a. m. Wednesday. At that hour the men drove up to the bank in a black and yellow Marmon car, two of them remaining in the automobile and the other three went into the building, which, at the time, was filled with people. “Hands up,” they ordered, flourishing their revolvers. The bank employes and customers, too frightened to resist, complied with the request and helplessly watched the robbers sweep the money from the desks of the cashier and tellers into their pockets. No effort, however, was made to open the safe in the rear of the room. While the robbers were backing out of the bank, a man passing by looked through the windows and saw what was going on. He immediately called assistance and before the bandits had left the place, opened fire on them. The robbers offered battle and in the shooting which followed Jacob Saime was wounded in the jaw* and Jerome Zechial was shot through the hip. Both men are in the hospital at Culver Military academy. A hurriedly organized posse gave chase to the fleeing robbers and three of them were captured before the got out of the city limits. One was caught at Burr Oak, Ind., and the fifth is still at Liberty. J. D. Shilling, president of the bank, is unable to state how much money the robbers got, but most of the cash had been recovered. He estimated that the loss will not be more than a few hundred dollars.