Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1908 — LOOT A BANK; GET $10,000 [ARTICLE]

LOOT A BANK; GET $10,000

BANDIT TRIO ROB FAIRLAND, OKLA., INSTITUTION. Desperadoes Crack Safe and Escape on Horseback—Daring Act at Pittsburg, Pa. Tulsa, Okla., June 5. —Robbers cracked the safe of the Bank of Fair-, land at Fairland, Okla., 30 miles east of here, Thursday and obtained $lO,000. The robbery was committed by three men who escaped on horseback. Posses are in pursuit. Pittsburg, Pa., June s—Following the holding\(p and robbing of a Pennsylvania express train and a street car, this vicinity was treated to a third wild-western affair Thursday, when two men, masked, heavily armed and riding horseback, smashed the window of the Monongabela Consolidated Coal and Coke Company’s general store at Boston, a mining town near by, took valuable articles and galloped away, firing revolvers. Reno, Nev., June 5.—A special from Rawhide states that a gang of eight men and two women in a series "bf hold-ups coupled with an attempt at arson, robbed the Rawhide hotel of S3OO, held up two men in a tent, held up and beat a stage driver, robbed a drug store, held up three other men, and set fire to the Rawhide hotel to prevent their being followed. They escaped. San Francisco, June 5. —Policeman W. H. Heins, one of the best known of the patrolmen on the Barbary coast detail, was shot apd instantly killed Thursday in a dance hall by a hold-up man named T. O. Young.