People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1893 — A BOLD THIEF. [ARTICLE]

A BOLD THIEF.

He Compels a Bank Cashier in Minnesota) at the Point of a Revolver, to Hand Him 82,000 in Cash, and escapes with His Plunder. Minneapolis, Minn., June 27.—A Moorhead, (Minn.) special to the Journal says that Monday a man presented himself at the cashier’s window of the Merchants’ national bank, pointed a revolver at the head of Assistant Cashier Van Vlissengen and demanded the money which was refused. The cashier then went to the door and as he did so the robber followed him up outside the railing and compelled him at the point of the revolver to walk back and give him the money lying on the desk. The cashier told him to take it. The robber grabbed about $2,000, jumped in a buggy and drove rapidly down a back street to the Jay Cooke stable and fled to the river which he swam. He left S4O in gold in the buggy. A large posse is scouring the woods on both sides of the river for him.