People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — TRIED TO ROB A BANK. [ARTICLE]

TRIED TO ROB A BANK.

A Once Wealthy and Prominent Resident of Kansas City in Trouble. Harrisonville, Mo., Nov. 6.—Thomas H. Edwards, once a prominent republican politician of Kansas City, Mo., once assessor of that city by appointment and twice assessor of the county by election, lies in the county jail at this place charged with attempted bank robbery. Reentered the First national bank of this city about noon Friday, and finding Cashier Houston alone assaulted him. Houston managed to secure his revolver, when Edwards, who was unarmed, and who seemed to be acting under a sudden impulse, ran out of the front door only to fall into the arms of two citizens who were passing. He was at once taken to the county jail. Edwards was at one time reputed to be worth a million dollars. He was successful in politics and in real estate speculations. When the boom burst a few years ago, however, his luck turned and one bad investment following another, he wound up his business in Kansas City a year or more ago a ruined man.