Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — NO TRACE OF MOROCCO BANK ROBBERS [ARTICLE]

NO TRACE OF MOROCCO BANK ROBBERS

While there have been some minor developments In the recent Farmers’ bank robbery, there has been nothing tangible yet brought to light. Two detectives were here several days last week working on the case, and each succeeding day demonstrates more clearly the clean get-away made by the thieves. It has been discovered that certain pieces of timber used in the robbery were picked up by the culprits near Schneider, which leads to the belief that they came in from Chicago, and clues are being sought in that direction. It has also been made reasonably certain that they left here going east, and to best reach Chicago in that direction they would turn north one mile this side of Mt. Ayr and follow the Thayer road. People living along that road report having seen and heard two autos going north at a terrific speed about 3 o’clock on the morning of the robbery. As it had been previously made certain that the'Jobbers came in two machines, there seems little doubt but that the two autos seen in north Jackson township that morning contained the robbers making their way back to the city. The detectives are working on the case and there is yet some hope of apprehending the guilty parties, but now that more than a week has elapsed without any direct trace of them, each day makes the case appear more hopeless.—■ »-M-rocco Courier.