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NEW PALESTINE BANK SAFE BLOWN SATURDAY MORNING AND TWENTY-FIVE HUN­

DRED DOLLARS SECURED BY THE ROBBERS

IS THE SECOND ROBBERY WITHIN THE LAST YEAR

And Tolal of Over §9,000 Lost By Bank—Front Door of Bank Was Forced Open and Safe Was

Blown This Time—Robbery Discovered By Henry Fralich, the Cashier.

SAFE WAS BLOWN TO PIECES

Robbery Was Supposed to Have Occurred About Midnight—A Few Pieces of Money Left Burglars

Escaped on Hand Car Which Was Left Near Indianapolis BloodHounds Have Been Put on Trail— No Definite Clews.

The New Palestine Bank was burglarized again Friday night, or probably early Saturday morning, and the robbers made their getaway with about $2,500 of the funds of the bank.

The robbery was not discovered until Saturday morning, when the cashier, Henry Fralich, went to the bank to open up and get things ready for business. Mr. Fralich found the front door to the bank open and a brace and bit near it. The heavy safe had been forced open with explosives.

Mr. Fralich at once had ropes stretched about the front of the bank before any crowd had gathered to give the blood-hounds a bet tor chance should they be sent. for.

The safe was blown to pieces by a heavy charge of explosive, and all the money extracted but some pennies, two pieces of gold and a small amount of silver.

It is not known just when the robbery occurred, but it was reported that a muffled noise was heard between 12 and 1 o'clock, and it is supposed that it was at this hour the burglary occurred.

With the use of a brace and bit and other tools the front door was opened and the blinds were then drawn, and an attempt had been made to muffle the sound of the explosion by covering the safe. It was discovered that the robbers made their escape on a hand-car, the same one that was used at the previous robbery. The hand-car was found near Irvington, where it had been abandoned.

The bloodhounds that were sent for were loaded into an automobile and taken to that point with the hope of tracing the burglars.

The news of this second robbery created a great deal of excitement at New Palestine and two hundred people were about the bank building during the morning.

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This bank is one of the institutions that the people are proud of and it has been one of the best paying banks in the county, as it is in the center of a rich farming community. It has paid dividends as high as 24 per cent. The $10,000 slock is owned by four men, John: if. Binford, of this city Charles ltichman, of Tipton, formerly audilor of Hancock county Edward Fink and Ilonry Fralich, of Sugar Creek township. Mr. Fralich is the cashier.

The bank continued to do business after the former robbery, but it will probably be a few days until they can resume now, on account of the big safe being completely wrecked. The men who own the stock in this bank represent an amount upwards of $200,000, and Hie money loss will have no effect on the continuance and successful operation of the bank.

This is the second time the New Palestine Bank has been robbed within the past twelve months. The former robbery was on the night of December 29-30, 1910, when the bank was entered, the time locks on the safe were manipulated, and $6,606.50 extracted. At that time the burglars made their get-away to Indianapolis on a hand-car.

It was but a short time after the

robbery that Van Derry and Cordia Martin, of this city, were arrested by Indianapolis police, charging them with the robbery. Derry made a confession at the time in which he said Cordia Martin and himself burglarized the bank and also alleged that Dan Williams, another young man of this city, knew of the plans for the robbery, but did not participate in the deed. Derry claimed that Williams received a part of the money, and he was arrested in Ohio, where he had gone to work.

The grand jury of Marion county found bills against the two young men and Derry was sentenced to Jeffersonville on his plea of guilty. Cordia Martin stood trial and was convicted by a jury, and sentenced to Michigan City for a term of ten years. The charge against Williams was dismissed in Marion county and the three young men were brought before the Hancock county grand jury, which found several bills against Williams and Martin. Williams was held on three charges for a time, but later gave bond and a motion to quash the affidavits was sustained by the court, on the grounds that persons other than regular members of the grand jury and officials of that court were present at the session when the investigation was made. Subsequently charges of the same nature have been placed against him by the prosecutor and are now on the docket.

An appeal was taken by Cordia Martin to the higher court and his case was reversed and a new trial ordered on the grounds that the Marion county court had no jurisdiction in the charge of burglary committed in Hancock county.

Martin was returned to Marion county from Michigan City, where he is now being held, and his second trial will occur in this county.

It has been but a few days since the New Palestine Bank brought suit against the National Surety Company to compel the payment of the burglary policy they carried with that company. The company held that they are not liable under the policy, for the loss, as the bank safe was not forced and they also allege that the provisions of the policy were not complied with by the banking company.

The directors and officers of the New Palesline Bank, which was robbed Saturday morning, have or dered a big screw door, Mosler safe of 'the Hamilton, Ohio, company, lhat will cost $1,000. The safe will be installed at once and the banl will be ready for business in a few days. The safe ordered is a du plicate of the one in the Capital State Bank in this city, except size smaller and is said to be ab solutely burglar proof.

The amount stolen from the bank totals $2,470. Indianapolis detec tives are working on the case and it is said have some good clews that may develop in an arrest soon.

The robbery was one of the boldest of the season. Twenty or thirty sacks of sawdust were carried from a saw mill a distance of several rods, and piled around and on the safe before the explosion occurred, to deaden the sound. It is evident that there were several people in the deal, or two or three men worked very hard, as carrying the large amount of sawdust was no small task.

The blood hounds that were sent for were at fault, as they failed to trace the burglars but a short distance. A number of people went with them from Rushville to Irvington, where they were started at the hand-car used by the burglars, and which was left by the roadside. An old pair of overalls and a blouse were left on the hand-car.

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Miss Goldie Shane entertained on Saturday night at her home east of the city for the seventeenth birthday of her sisler, Cordia. There were about thirty guests present. The evening was spent in games, and refreshments of apples, candy and bananas were served. Miss Cordia received, several very pretly and useful presents in the way of china.

Made Another Record. Simon Fishburn made another good record a few days ago, driving a well on Marshall Smith's farm, south of the city. He began work at 7 o'clock in the morning and at 4 o'clock had driven fifty feet of two-inch casing. This is twice as much as an ordinary day's work.

T. H. Selman has purchased a new automobile from C. JE. Kinder & Son.

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7 GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1911

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GREENFIELD WON

THE GREENFIELD HIGH SCHOOL FOOT BALL TEAM MAKING RAPID STRIDES TOWARDS

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

SPECTACULARPLAYSSATURDAY

Greenfield Downs Team that Bested Franklin College Last WeekScore Hardly Worth Mentioning,

Only 17 to 00—How the Boys Did It—More Practice the Slogan.

Hurrah for old G. H. S. We have met the enemy and they are ours— three touchdowns, two goal kicks, and a clean game to our credit. Franklin came, Franklin saw, but Greenfield conquered.

In spite of the fact that they beat Franklin College last week by a big score, Franklin High School lost to the local high school in the game at the grounds Saturday. It was a clean game, relatively free from interruptions, and marked throughout by spectacular plays made mainly by local players. We should give this team full support, as it surely is of championship caliber. The line-up was as follows:

Thomas, full back. Bennett, left half back. Wood, right half back. Morgan, quarter back. Mannon, center. Barr, right guard. Montgomery, left guard. Tapscott, right tackle. Cooper, left tackle. Goble, right end. Rafferty, left end. Subs. Bruner, Hancock, Morehead, Todd, Smart and Mannon.

Score—17 to 0. Touchdowns Tapscott, Bennett, Rafferty.

Goal Kicks—Tapscott, Rafferty. Referee Jones of Indiana Umpire, Garrett, of Butler Linesman, Bruner, of Earlham Field Judge, Smock, of Greenfield. Attendance, 300.

Notes on the Game.

We're on the road to the state championship, but above all things footballisLic, we must not get overconfident. There are teams that can play, and we must not let them catch us napping.

Practice, practice, practice, and yet more practice, is the program for this week.

Tappy's touchdown was unassisted. He did it all by his little self. But as good as the play was, he broke a rule. He should have fallen on Lhe ball. Suppose he had missed it? Ugh!

Tommy played in hard luck. He had two chances at the west goal, and slipped both times.

Bennett's open-field running sure helped him make his touchdown. He ran as if he were scared but Franklin had all the scare.

Too bad that one of our own men had to fall down in front of Wood, or he would have scored, too. Better luck next time, "Punk."

We'll bet Franklin never had seen such an exhibition of open-field running as Bennett and Morgan showed them Saturday.

The new men still play like veterans. All of them, except Rafferty, had been through their baptism of fire before, and he had the good fortune to make a touchdown and possibly could have made another if he could have made a collection of his feet sooner.

They did their best to pound a hole through Cooper and Montgomery, but I hey found a stone wall.

So much lint was flying during that rag-chewing that most of us couldn't see what it was about.

Brownsburg beat Sheridan 15 toO. Now on to New Castle. But don't forget that over-confidence has lost many games. We must have that slate championship.

Mannon shone like a bright star in that first quarter and played

well all the rest of the time. Wood won first in the long distance crawl.

Congratulations, team and now PRACTICE!

Suit Fop Large Amount. On a change of venue from Marion county, a suit has been filed in the Hancock Circuit Court by John W. Hogan against Nordyke & Marmon Co., for $10,000, for personal injuries.

Lame back is one of the most common forms of muscular rheumatism. A few applications of Chamberlain's Liniment will give relief. For sale by all dealers,

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NOTICE OF FILING AND DOCKETING PETITION.

State of Indiana, County of Hancock, ss: In the Hancock Circuit Court.

September Term, 1911. No. 12291. In the Matter of a Petition for Tiling a Drain, by William G. Lantz. To Emma L. Freeman:

You are hereby notified that I, the undersigned, have filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Hancock Circuit Court, a petition asking for the tiling of a certain ditch, being in Sugar Creek Township, County and State aforesaid, and located and described as follows, to-wit:

Commencing at a' point nineteen (19) rods west of the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-two (22), in township fifteen (15) north of range six (6) east, thence south thirty-two '32) rods, thence east eighteen (18) rods, thence south thirty-eight (38) rods, thence westward to a point seventyone (71) rods north of the southeast corner of section twenty-one (21) in township fifteen (15) north of range six (6) east, thence southward to, and ending at a point in the main open ditch, forty-five (45) rods north of the south line of said section twenty-one (21) in township fifteen (15) north of range six (6) east, said ditch being an arm and a part of the ditch known as the Ashcraft Ditch, and having been established by the Hancock Circuit Court of Hancock County, State of Indiana.

Said petition alleges that real estate owned by you and described in said petition will be affected by said proposed drainage and tiling.

You are hereby further notified that said petition will be docketed for hearing on the 28th day of November, 1911. (Signed) WILLIAM G. LANTZ.

Samuel J. Offutt, Attorney for petitioner. wl9t2

Democrats Nominate Ticket. The Democrats of Knightstown held a meeting at the town hall on Wednesday night and nominated a ticket for town officials, to be voted for on Tuesday, November 7th, as follows:

Marshall—Charles Clark. Treasurer—R. E. Sample. Clerk—Dallas Copper. Truslee, Third Ward—William H. Walls.

Trustee, Fourth Ward—Ed Call. Trustee, Sixth-Ward—Geo. Hardy. Truslee, Seventh Ward Daniel Lewis. •—Knigh'lslown Banner.

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Card of Thanks.

Mrs. Mary L. Burch and family desire to extend their sincere thanks to the friends and neighbors for their help and sympathy during the illness of her husband, and for their kind assistance at the funeral.

Capt. Ham Changed.

By an order sent from Washington, Captain Samuel V. Ham, now in the Philippines, has been transferred from the Twelfth Infantry to the Seventy Infantry. He will be assigned to a company by his regimental commander.

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DRAG NET CAST BY PROSECUTOR CAUGHT A DOZEN AT COUNTY LINE TOWN

SATURDAY NIGHT.

CONFISCATED ALL THE BOOZE

Officers Surprised Five Places—Arrests Made For Selling Liquor Without License and For Gaming —Large Quantity of Wet Goods

Was Confiscated.

A drag net, laid by the Prosecutor to catch alleged violators of the liquor and gaming laws at Shirley, was pulled in Saturday night, when I and take no other, officers

went to the county line

town and raided five places, making a number of arrests for selling liquor without licenses and for gaming and operating gaming devices.

The affidavits of the Prosecutor were filed in Squire Gimason's court on Saturday evening against Charles Foutz, "Bones" Enright, Harl Lockridge, Noble Dudley, Tom Gaynor, H. M. Kenworthy, Henry Foutz, Frank Gilbert and Frank Lariminio.

Two automobile loads of officers, including W. H. Boyd, William Personett, Chas. Huston, Chas. Bridges, G. B. Clayton, Conant Tuttle, John Walsh and Lon Ray, left here soon after 8 o'clock with the warrants, and arrived at Shirley shortly after 10 o'clock. The officers divided their forces and proceeded to the places named in the affidavits where the arrests were made.

In addition to the arrests, a large quantity of booze was confiscated by the officers and locked in the depot to be sent to this city later. While the raid was a complete surprise to the places visited, news of the visit seems to have been tipped off to some of the citizens, and the I own was wide-awake when the officers arrived. There was a great, deal of excitement when the raid was made and the officers spent almost the entire night there, arranging bonds, etc., and not one of the men arrested was forced to return to Greenfield willi the officers.

The places of Frank Gilbert, Frank Lariminio and 11. M. Kenworthy were raided, but nothing unlawful was found in I heir rooms.

Charles Foutz, Temple McCord and Charles Collyer each plead guilty lo gaming and paid their fines and costs, amounting to $17.70 in each case, lo the officers who made the arrests.

Charles Foutz went before Mayor Myers Monday morning and plead guilty to selling liquor without a license and was fined $50 and costs, amounting to $75.

Grover Redic gave bond in the sum of $100 in Squire Gimason's court to appear and answer to a charge of keeping a poker room.

Charges of selling liquor without a license were placed against Harl Lockridge and Henry Foutz.

There are two or three under $100 bond on charges of operating blind tigers and some of the cases will probably be settled this afternoon. The booze that was confiscated was sent to this city by way of Indianapolis and will arrive here some time this evening.

By a clever ruse, it is said, three barrels of the beer were retained in the town. Some of the officers rolled the barrels out onto the side walks and thought other officers were carting them to the depot, but someone had rolled Ihreo of tb'"M inlo lhe alley and then concealed them, according lo report.

Several for whom warrants were held gave the officers lhe slip in the general excilement attending the five raids.

The drag net was laid afler the Prosecutor and Mayor received let— ers from Shirley cilizens who. il is said, lipped off lhe lime and places to the officers. There has been a great deal of complaint from Shirley concerning alleged violations of the liquor and gaming aws and (lie officers are. in hopes lhat lhe business is now broken up. but say they will keep their weather eye open for any continuance of the practice at Shirley.

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This is a purely local event. It took place in Greenfield. Not in Buffalo or New Yrork. You are asked to investigate it. Asked to believe a citizen's word To confirm a citizen's statement. Any article that is endorsed at home

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ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

The undersigned^ administrator of the estate of Francis M. Brizendine, deceased, hereby gives notice that by virtue of an order of the Hancock Circuit Court, he will at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m., of the 18th day of November, 1911, at his residence in Center township, and at the office of James F. Reed, in Greenfield, Hancock county, Indiana, and from day to day thereafter until sold, offer for sale at private sale, all the interest of sai^ decedent in and to the following described real estate, to-wit:

The west half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-four (24), in township sixteen (16) north, range six (6) east, containing eighty (80) acres, more or less.

Also, the north division of the west half of the southwest quarter' of section twenty-four (24), township sixteen (16) north, range six (6) east, bounded as follows, towit: Commencing at the northeast corner of said west half, and running thence west to the northwest corner thereof, thence south twen-ly-live (25) rods, thence east to the east line of said west half, thence north on said east line twenty-live (25) rods to the place of beginning, conlaining twelve and one-half. vl2!4 acres

Also, lhe northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section twen-ty-lhree (23), in township sixteen (16) north, range six (6) east, excepting one and one-half (114) acres heretofore conveyed to The Trustees of the Sugar Creek Methodist Episcopal church, for church and cemetery purposes, as shown by deeds recorded in Deed Record "G," at page 112, and Deed Record "62" at page 97, of the Records in lhe Recorder's office of Hancock Counly, Indiana, and containing in this tract lo be sold thirty-eight and one-hall' (3814) acres, more or less

Also a middle division of the east half of the northeast quarter of section twenty-three (23), in township sixteen (16) north, range six (6) east, bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the west line of said east half, forty-eight (48) rods north of the southwest corner thereof, and running thence east, on a line parallel with the north line of said east half, to the east line I hereof, thence north on said east line thirty-two and one-half (3214) rods, thence west on a line parallel with the north line of said east half, to the west line thereof, thence south to Lhe place of beginning, containing sixteen and onefourth (1614) acres, more or less, and conlaining in all the several tracts herein petitioned to be sold, one hundred forty-seven and oneI'ourlh (14714) acres, more or less.

Said sale will be made subject to I lie approval of said court for not less than the full appraised value I hereof. Said real estate will be sold treed from the lien of all mortgages, and lhe lien of any and all mortgages will attach to the funds arising from the sale of said real est ale in lhe hands of said administrator.

Said real eslalc will be sold upon lhe following terms and conditions: At least one-third of the purchasemoney cash in hand, the balance in two equal installments, payable in six and twelve months respectively, evidenced by notes of the purchaser bearing six per cent, interest from date, waiving relief from valuation or appraisement laws, providing attorney's fees and secured by mortgage on the real estate sold Or, the purchaser may pay the entire purchase price in cash at his own option.

ORVILLE E. McCONNELL, Administrator.

James F. Reed, Attorney for Estate. wl9U

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