People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — BANK CASHIER KILLED. [ARTICLE]

BANK CASHIER KILLED.

Brutal Crime of Robbers at Summerworth, N. H. Cashier Joseph A. Stickney, of the Great Falls National Bank in Somersworth, N. H., yielded his life Friday after a desperate but futile struggle to prevent robbers from taking the bank’s cash. The amount of booty secured by the robbers is a matter of conjecture. All the cash is missing, and this is estimated to be $6,000, though it may be more. The robbers overlooked SIOO,OOO In United States bonds, kept in one of the drawers of the vault. None of the negotiable paper or bank securities was touched, the robbers having evidently determined to take nothing but cash. The crime was not discovered until some time had elapsed, and the perpetrators had ample opportunity to escape. Mr. Stlckney was a well-known resident of this city, and threats of quick vengeance are freely being made in the event that his murderers are captured and brought here. Two men were arrested at Waltham, Mass., charged with the crime, but they proved ‘an alibi.