Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 48, Number 21, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 February 1906 — Page 6
BOLD BANK ROBBERIES
IN THE MIDDLE WEST Many Institutions Plundered by Cracksmen During Recent Months.
HOW NEFARIOUS WORK IS ACCOMPLISHED Over Thirty Successful "Jobs" in Mississippi Valley States During Last Quarter of 1905 Are Regarded as Most Dangerous of Criminals.
Chicago. A compilation of the bank I robberies which occurred throughout th middle western states last fall shows that the season was an exceptionally prosperous one for rmcksbcd. Many little banking institution as plundered of its wealth by the night-prowling professioc. For a time It was a daily occurrence to karn that a bank robbery had Mkez ;'.a m M - r. 11 -ts. Indiana. Kansas, or some of the other K.shtoriEg states of the Mississippi sa'ley Very often aa many as two or three banks wer robbed on the san-.e night at different town, showing that several band were pursuing the nefarious work. Partial List cf Robberies. B. ginning with the first of October and ending with the last day of the oil ytar. no less than 30 laMMM
bank robberies occurred in the states of ths middle west. Following are some of the ibs " TU ? bank ef Wlllari Ky . waa robocd on the night of October 9. and pursuing citizens killed one robber and raptured four others. A fortes of bank robberies occurred tn I .iiana between October 24 and November 3. The robbers got $4.400 , from 'he banh at Sanborn. 15.600 from the bank at Hagerstown. $. from the bank at Rldgeville. and wrecked the 1 ault at Windfall. An attempt was also made to rob the bank at Odoa. but no money was secure. Ci-iztns of Duquoin. Ill routed a gang of safe blowers on the night of November 1. Bank of Creighton. Creighton. Mo., was -.obbel of $4M) night of November 3. and the vault partially detno.lahed by nitroglycerine. On night of November 3 robbers tried to blow the bank at Washington, 'nd . and were frustrated In gettins $C 000 by the bottom of the safs blowing out before the doors opened In blowing a safe at Cherry vale. Kan . on the night of November 20 robbers started a fire which did ST".,jgu i a mage. Bank of Pleasant Plains. III. ?h. up safe blowers on night of November 25. Tl.ey got UM. Another gang .ot II .000 at Jamestown. 111., the
wrecked by nitroglycerine on th- . f N- :..ber The robber got l EM On the same night another gangs got ITS at Piggott. Ark ; a small sum at Metz. Ark.; $100 at Lawton. 0. T ; i at Terrell. Tex., and 11.204 at Vallonia. Ind. Over S3 was taken from the bank at OvL I T . on the night of Novem
most dangerous kind of criminal It la said tliat bank robbers will ooot quiet rr than any other type They a-. ..it.-ly (earless and lber dis .tr of the tieatnictlvaoes of nltro-glc-ine has cade it an ray watt.r toff a "econd--!ass bum" to btfome a flrst-v'lass bsnk robber It Is said that few bank bursars are mechanic, relying upon the nitroglycerine to ojen the ault. no mat ter how strong the safe or how well barr-1 th. toon C.Ue a tramp a can of soup and a bar of soap, and two or three other bums to work with him. and he ll ret Into the famtest burglar pro.-f afe that was cer mads." aald a detective. That so few robbers are caught Is eapla.ned by ths detectives in this . . .
way. THe rMenes wtur i nam towns, here. tlure. everywhere. Cracking the safe between midnight and two o'clock, the thieves have often as many as four or five hours of darkness in whMi to f away. If th can catch a train across country in this time It Is a long chase to catch them I'nlike the James snd the Younger beys they don't ride Into town in the daytime, shoot up an 1 Änwn the street until the bank is
! robbed, and then ride off into the woodx The up-to-date bank rabbfff come and goe; under cover of night, and almost invariably relies upon the railroads to arry Mm far away from the e-cne of bis crime within a few hours. So It is rhu 'he muffled bocm of the bank robbery is a nightly occur-
tools ine of them of renara ie workmanihip but the possln
of these is rare For the most part the gang with nothing but the nitroglycerins and tiM oap They pl.g out s small , rar. ly one with a population of m re than 3, H) or 4.000. generally one . ... t... h maim have but a
:.:. ht '.Mil..' f.T-v If it. ! lave anything more than a niKbt rrarshal The ganjt er.t a man in tow a ..nr in the day to ltvate the bank At r,;U!nUbt the whole quartette mos in. The night marshal Is hunted up and gagged Hank robbers have their own colloquialisms for all these thln?s. and if they were telling It they would sav they "stuck up" the marshnl and put htm away " This means the thrust a pun In the officer's face, compelled htm to throw up his han !. bound an 1 caitged blm. and laid him out of harm's wav behind some building, or back In an alley. Looking after the r.ijtht marshal Is almost always an jiv .-.-omnllshed Drelimtuary. F
of them ever discover there are bank robbers in town until it Is too late, an 1 a case where robbers were anticipated by the marshal and routed before they robbed the bank Is sufficiently rare to be called unknow n. Actual Work at Bank. Aftr the vay has been cleared In this manner the thieves go to the bank, either rick or break the lock of the bank äOOf wtth a crowbar, and enter th- hamber of weal'.h If the I safe is inside the vault they first go
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Aa Argum".-. t That Admitted of , Some Dtaputatiojs Question. Tue ajgba ere cntrrtaimnc. and to 1 eateruibto by the Natu:t. ia a lib- ; i il sduralioa m tlie art ot bu kernte, and lu.Li.' Ii..: . u. ra.lv uu. iul.i labia ' foi ...iji-iu I inasnt. relates tls Uy1 1 j ika cur' was enlaced in ths
pontic sn t Ilur.rid amuartneni of rritt J ci ng an aUnl trietid. .. he mkI, "he's the meanest, stingiest man 1 -r knrw. in laet. I dn t it. nl Itaste'l another man in ine wc.rld who m BO it.ai " , v. Oh. 1 .'. nl know, interrupted NaggSb "that pretty tall order, yoo know. I ih nk I kri. vr tingier man. Theres niv (atker-in-law, (or instance I .us a ted l'ke i rvd tlag on Mrs. Nagge k'-Lo! here'' she snapped, "you're always ta l n "ur fatber-in law I miply ou t aftaad It! Oh. pook, pookl" refined Naggaby. "He's niv (.tli'i inlaw, not .urs. Iut jvu ait until I aav something ab ut yours liefere you begin to talk!" That o at eiht o'.'.-k. nnd at 11 W
they wets still at it. auu going siruugti tba:. eer. 4 DOCTOR CURED OF ECZEMA. M.irylar.d Physician Curea Himaelf K, Fisher Says: Cuticura Remedies Possess True Merit."
"M-n a man." said I'm !e Eboa, "takes credit to his ae't foh bein' lwf)tntaat wtia be s only afraid of de in ratigatm' lumittee." Washington Mar. A Ouaranteed Cure fcr Piles. hshlnc, Blind. Bteeiltna-. Pissruslag f iniirit im aiiUiorla! to refund raonn if PvOiNrws.VT fails to curelnÖtold. t. m Men are prone to spend a Is4 si ' deigning mansard roofs of hope for an ttuished tuiidatious of deeds. LpkI1 smp Binder Um faanoosstr i 8c iMirar. always kest quaiitv YourdosMt or Lewis' Factory, I'ex.ria, 111.
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ber N. 1 Robters blew a safe at ShelbyTllle. Hau. and got M0 on night of De-, cem'jr 1. Th? Farmers and Merchants' bank, at Forest Grove . Ore., was robbed of $5.451 on lght of December 2. On the fame n.gh- an :her gang got $2j from a back at Carrolton. Tex. Ci'iiens at Fairland Ind.. fough an exef-it-s: batt!? with bank robbers on night of Dec-mler 6. The thieTM got awa.. with IM on the same u'.ght another gang got ItoO at Ardmore. I T All Precaution Useless. Banks in all the small towns in thes states were literally turned Into arse--Si while a thorough, up-to-date eouicr-.ent of burglar alarms was
genially lnsta'd and special armed watchmen employed by ths banks Th? methods employed in practically eve.-- cne of tnese bank robberies have been 'he same. The loot has seldom failed- Sometimes it has amounted to 125 0") from t single robbery, and it nas scarcely ever been leas than 1 No: since the days whn the famous Reno gang of bandits terrorized the people with its daring crimes has
the counTy been so boldly worke i i bank burglars as It was during the autura Just pas'. With the advnof ths rural telephone and the derelopment of the tnternrban electric railways the sta-es boasted of progress that was popularly supposed to make the profession of yeggman so hazardous that organizations of bur : glars and systematic looting of banks wou.i be abandoned. But such seems not :c haTe been the case. Missouri, which inrented train robbery, usually leads all the states of the union In lank robberies. ThU year, however, the state where peor.i v,r. -m Ke shown. " has been
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in and bloating of the ehest choked rn and threaten- d the heart I I little hope, but to my untold surpri iVmn'H Kolney I'. '. ir..mrhl sM r. f and saved my life. 1 shall never forget it." BoJ4 by all dealers. M OSnta a box Foater-MUburn Co. , Buffalo, N. V.
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4Mme nicht, and a third $20) at Fair-: sjsount. 111. Bank robbers made an unsuccensful 1 sxita-k upon Danvill. Ill on the night of November 21. snd the sam night1 avno üm futile attempt was made st Tarranja. DL Robuers en "red Ellon. Slo . on uiRb: of November 25. but were re pu.sed by citizens, who (ap'ured their bottle of nltrx glycerine. John Rodent rg. f Ha'' St Louis! fiitic that a!e blowrs might visit blm. tost?d thf combination of his j neXe lt plain v.ew Th expeetsu wini" ram, and the thieves pot $;2 ou' of the safe on th night of November ZC wltbou- ;i- ( the dr-'r;i Sjltr!ceriL'. B ssed t'us safe. Th? stt Bank at Chaowao r.'
ontVm by Indiana. Illinois Ken-t.K-k. Kansas. Arkansas, the Indian Territory. Oklahoma. Tesaa and Nebraska, all parts of the favorite ran- of the tank robber. It ii sträng, but true, that few robbrns ever occur out of season. A not abls exception was a: lloi!. Ii!, where a bank was robbed of f' This robbery orcurred In August Th
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ronre s- m--where In the middle west at this season. The dweller in the coun-ry town know- what It 1 when It br.ngs him out of his peaceful slumbers :n the dead of night. There la no mistaking that sup pres.i-.l roar If he It a tarn man the c'tizen gen his gun and toes out on :he firing line; if he Is a man -f peace, he assures his wife that the noise they heard is thunder Few Robbers Caught. It la a singular fact that few hank robbers are caught. Now and then n gang of them will make a mess of It snd brlns the wrath of th citizen oldlery down on their heel?, but the average of mortality In the business is below that of street car li lintt and automobil ing. Bank robbers work in Quartettes, as did the adventurers of L'imas, sn 1 abiut the only difference between their lives and those of the famous Three M :--e-. r is that th" ' hank robbers' adver.' urea are lnvarla-
lly more remunerative and always leas sentimental Sometime ttejf thing roes tfl f mah. as it did with a Ran at WOlard. Ky.. on the night of October -'? ! last, when a posse put bloodhounds ttfon the trail after the bsrk was j robbed snd fouttht a battle wish the thieves, killing one and capturing the rest Sometimes, too. a bank robber rtow rareless with his wsalth and excites ;,ieion by displaying it. This Waiths undolnar of Harry Stewart, who 1 was arrested In St Iuls December , I 4 while attemptina to dispose of fl."00 worth of stamps whl- h had been part 1 of the loot In a robbery at Shelbyvllle. 1 Mo . a few days before. Stewsrt eon fessed to eompllelty tn the robbery. The greater part of these roving rogues, however, et away without a i fight or a capture. They almost In1 variablv work between ml Inlght and
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so Identical from cne end of the great Mississippi valley to the urher that one might readily suppose all ths robberies were the work of the am ;-an. Detectives, however, know bett-. Tne Robbing Formula. The formula for robbing a bank Is Imple. simpler than one not famllksr with the working: of a gam: of afv eraekers would suppose. The gang gets a few sticks of dynam.te. takes QM nltroglyef rtne :t of It and carries this violent explosive
away It hs tien tip a tiki, inv Qiisntltiet of nitniglycerlne have been stolen from a gsnnnfaetarlng plant where the deadly explosive is made In the northern pit of Indiana It Is the supposition of Capf. Kinney, of the In lianapolls detective, department, that thrt robbers have thu nntOSlvO ht ! ler. aw.y la some woo Is ar.d carry away small q'taall'le of It as thty need It. Besides the explot-I.e the e'her essential to robbing a safe Is n tar of sonn. Sometimes ths gaa; has bnr-
to work with fhe sp and "gonpT (ths latter being their name for nttro-glyc-rtnei and blow their way in. Th safe comes next. They make a soap lip a, the top crack of the safe door, cailt the crack of the safe door all the way down, and pour .he nitroglycerine Into the lip. from
which It runs down tnslde the door long the sld f. ot the bottom. Thit lOOO, the thieves put ths percussion cap ,n th. ap Up. attach n foot-Iorg fuse light it snd retire outside, closicg the door Sometimes when h y j are Mowing a safe inside a vault they evn close the door of the vault. Thepr.eaut.ons lessen the noise and minimize th inngef at an alarr.. Oil leteetlrwi say tha there are really no safes that can withstand th!s attack with nitroglycerine. Many I so-called b-.irglar-proof safes have j been lai 1 pin until their experien-e has sught them to lose faith In the nam- True, tbere are safes that fre(jue.v.y resist attack, but this is be raus. tn. th;eves do not know how to Jo it; not because it couldn't bs done. The detectives say that lank re,b- , bing is a crime in which only white men engage It Is unknown of I negroes. Another f.ir.gular fa t a4 -' it Is that the men engaged tn It are i almo3 all of tn age. It Is not the : work of boys or graybeards. but the sdv.-iMire of men varying little from 35 yurs Most of them are ex con victa pe'eoti.es have obs-rved thai a safe blow, r nn" ".settled." aa they call .onvtetlon snd imprisonment. Invariably returns to the soup and soap. The explana'ior is obvious: He needs j ready money. Th lnfTr M from all this la that , the winter can havs no terrors for
the benk robber Handsomely awarded .'or his industry, he can retire for a seaion and tr.dulge in a f w luxuries. If. as bank officials affirm, the bold bank robbers who have made such a
whelping campaign this last year take refuge In the brick walled acvona of the larger cities of the entrsl west after Vietr autumn setlvnles, this should be a winter of ilenty or prosperous robbers In th Mississippi vslley. with a plethora of money. To be rure a good deal of it under the-s circumstances would be tainted chiefly kf pOwAOf and some of the . urrenef mav bs a little bent, but It will havs to be pretty bsdly shot up to be unwe'e :: Many a smill lanker vyould rest eas'er If MMM means enM Ie fo ind to rinn f r.'v protect himself and
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