Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — BANK THIEF SOON CAUGHT. [ARTICLE]

BANK THIEF SOON CAUGHT.

George Shea, alias Fh3ip T.awAeV. » resident of Chicago, is Etety to aarwa one half day’s use of Shea went into the JfcttwffioSaam National Bank, Beaton, at noon and amt away undetected math s3ffjfiflff He mote for New York, where he maa pumagCgy arrested, a good description off the Uto* having been sent all «wr She FlsilS ir*. States within an bear after the nktay. He offered the officer naliig the annexe, the whole SM,OOO to aet ham ftte. All of the money sins recovered. The story of the robbery, as hy the bank officials, is that a man came into the he could obtain a money order. He carried am his conversation with CSaream S. Delfendahl, the receiving tribe, mho was acting as p*yn® teller. The teStac, after answering the ataa's qaesfiamm, went on with his weak and paad mo further attention to the strongest, mil aatfraa going to a telephone. While the affinal's back was tinned toward him. Shea teterd a roll of bilk and escaped. A to—ff rapher saw him take the money ami gave the alarm as he was going out, halt it eras too late to step the thief.