Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1912 — The Medaryville Bank Robbers Made Good Their Escape. [ARTICLE]

The Medaryville Bank Robbers Made Good Their Escape.

The latest report from Medaryville regarding the bank robbery there on Monday night, is to the effect that no further trace of the cracksmen has been secured. The town was aroused by the night operator of the telephone office, Mrs. Theodore Bramer. The jar of the explosion caused the bank drop on the switch board to fall and aroused the operator who soon after heard another explosion and saw the robbers on the outside of the bank. She immediately gave the alarm and the robbers were scared away without gaining access to the strong box in the safe in which $7,000 in currency and gold was kept. A few scattered pieces of silver and a sack of pennies were found near the railroad where the robbers boarded the handcar and made their getaway north. An overcoat which was hanging in the bank was also found near the railroad.

The Francesville Tribune says of the robbeny: “M. M. Ocker, who lives upstairs across the street, on account of illness happened to be up at the time, and when he heard the explosion, he surmized that the bank was being robbed, so he got his shotgun arnd fired in the direction of the bank. As soon as the gun cracked two robbers i’an from the bank. He says that they joined two others who had been standing guard outside and who had been firing an occasional shot in the air to scare away anyone who might attempt to molest them while their pals were doing the work bn the inside. They ran south, but at the rear of the C. W. Hall hardware store they dumped a large quantity of pennies and ,on ther south they dropped a package of nickles, which presumably were too heavy and burdensome to carry in making their speedy getaway.”