People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — A DARING RAID. [ARTICLE]

A DARING RAID.

Two Unmasked Desperadoes Rob a Kansas Bank of About £4,000. Kansas City, Mo., March 28.—News from the little town of Caney, Kan., tells of a sensational bank robbery there at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon, when three officials of the bank of Caney valley were surprised by two unmasked outlaws who covered them with their revolvers. One was a half-breed Indian, Ed Newcomb, an outlaw, and the other was a white man recognized as the notorious Henry Starr. Cashier Perry Hollingsworth, Assistant Cashier H. A. Scurr and Judge McEnery, vice president of the First national bank of Coffeyville, were the covered officials. Assistant Cashier Scurr went into the vault and closed the door, but Starr ordered Hollingsworth to open the vault, which he did at the point of a pistol. The cashier was then forced to put $2,000 in bank bills and SI,OOO in gold in a sack which Starr held. Then they went through the cash drawers and •ecured SI,OOO more. Seven customers came in while the work progressed, but no chance was offered to alarm the people as each one was made to throw up his hands and line up. Many passed on the street, but the bank was supposed to be closed as it was 3 o’clock. After completing the robbery the two bold highwaymen marched the seven customers and three officers into the baek yard, which has a high board fence. They turned the ten men loose there, and, locking the rear door of th* bank, walked quietly out in front, jumped on their horses and rode away. They were recognized by a dozen citizens. The robbers rode rapidly south into the Indian territory, whicl is but 2 miles away. It was thirty minutes before the town was alarmed, and then a posse was organized and put in pursuit. Five hundred men were rushing horseback over the level prairie toward the nation in an hour. Nothing has been heard from the chase.