Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1899 — More About the Reynolds Robbery- [ARTICLE]

More About the Reynolds Robbery-

From the Monticello Journal we get following additional poets about the robbery of the Reynolds bank Wednesday morning. Entrance to the buildings was effected through the front door, by means of a crow-bar secured from an elevator near by. It took three charges of the explosive to get into the safe and the reports* were heard a mile away. The safe was totally ruined and the bank building badly damaged. No papers are missing and the other loss to the bank will be made good by the Bankers’ Mutual Casualty Co., of Des Moines, lowa, of which the bank was a member. It is thought that there were four of the robbers. They drove into town from the east and left in that direction. The nature of the work done showed that the robbers were evidently expert burglars. The amount of the robbery was, as before stated, $2500 to S3OOO.