Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1919 — TOLLESTON BANKER IS KILLED [ARTICLE]

TOLLESTON BANKER IS KILLED

By Auto Bandits Who Are Scared Away Without Getting Money. Five bandits drove up in front of the First State, bank of Tolleston, a suburb of Gary, shortly after the opening hourß Saturday morning and four of the party rushed into the bank and yelled: "Hands up!” Without giving Caabler Herman Uecker a second to comply, one of the bandits opened fire and sent four bullets into Uecker’s body before be fell to the floor dead. Another bullet was fired at iAisiatant Cashier C. E. Phillips, which lodged in one of his legs. Phillips was waiting on a customer, a Mrs. Godis, at the time. The gang then fled without securing any money, leaped Into the big black limousine awaiting them at the curb, and were gone, driving south from Tolleston, and making good their escape. Mr. Uecker leaves a wife and two children. This is the fourth time this bank has been held up in the past five years.