People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — STOLE A BIG SUM. [ARTICLE]

STOLE A BIG SUM.

• Safe Blowers Rifle O. W. Shryer’o Bank at Bloomfield. Ind. Terre Havte. Ind., Oct. 0. —Professional safe blowers robbed O. \V. Shryer's bank at Bloomfield. Ind., of 85.500 Wednesday night. The local police department was notified of the job and given a description of the burglars. Indianapolis, Ind.. Oct. 6—A bloody fight took place Thursday evening in Greene county between a possee of 100 armed men and a trio of bank robbers who robbed the safe of the Bloomfield bank Wednesday night, blowing the vault to smithereens with a heavy charge of dynamite and wrecking the

bank office. The men secured 85.500 in cash and fled to the hill country west of Bloomfield, where they were overtaken Thursday evening by Sheriff Johnson’s posse, guided by bloodhounds. A desperate fight was kept up, with the robbers retreating. One of the trio was so badly wounded he fell behind and attempted to hide in the brush. The bloodhounds nosed him out and his capture was easily effected.