Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1902 — Fight with Bank Cracksmen. [ARTICLE]

Fight with Bank Cracksmen.

Wenona, Ill..dispatch: Expert cracksmen made an unsuccessful attempt to blow open the vaults of the First National Bank at Henry, 111. The cracksmen numbered three, and were detected early in the evening hiding a set of tools in the park. Ten deputy sheriffs were placed in the vicinity. At midnight the robbers appeared and the deputies attempted to place them under arrest. The robbers opened fire, fled across the Illinois River bridge in the direction of Lacon and were lost in the thicket. While all this was going on there was an incessant change of shots by pursuers and pursued. The bank vaults contained $30,000.