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Holdup24, Of $ICS in Court porting for the a local had E. ch Hill, jbbs, 21. $209 foririjunnq. •n by Ihc ,31, andboth ofd$29 for56, and rth of the r public Norton, ’as fined ittoci and53, ol fU for *, Jitnmy boro was laving a i license, iT.f city was day forIbc ciiy ding, not operatorscontinuedcontinued fromckxied Ihc car and ran inlo Ihc dense woods that cover the nearby mountain ridges.As the robbers ran Into the woods, one of them dropped cr discarded one of the plastic garbage bags in which they were carrying most of the slolen money. The bag con* tained about $4,003 In small bills thnl had been part of ihc nlghL deposits at the bank, From what witnesses described, ihc robbers apparently found themselves locked inside ihe bank after bonk manager, Glean Yoakum walked through the rear door and saw the robbery in progress, Yoakum locked the rear door behind him os he quickly left the building. The rear door was fired upon in the area of Ihc door knob rtkI lock and lilt numerous times. One of lUr sheds narrowly missed Yoakum.Inside the bank, Ms. Johnston and Ms. Vayne, were handcuffed lo ihc leg of a heavy desk. FTom the street, Brenda Day and Richard Tnylor said ll«y could hear them yelling for help after l be robbers had shot a large hole In a fronl glass panel and jumped through 11. The man, described as about 5'7'* and of mediumbuild, fell when he jumped through but the person about 5‘2“ and heavy set, jumped through the hote in the window ami cleared the waist high hedge of shrubbery In front of the bank without falling.The by-standers entered the bank after the car In which the robbers were escaping had turned left at T-Craft Marine Supply following US 25E southward.They lifted the desk so that the wornen could free their hands-from around one of it*'legs. Ms. Payne was later taken to Ihc Claiborne County Hospital for treatment of what -the witnesses described os shock. “She was really upset, said Mrs. Day,Within moments, about 40 deputies and state police officers had cordoned off a large wooded area behind the lumber yard and called for a hell copier to aid in locating Ihe robbers, ft was over an hour before on aircraft was in the air trying to spot the suspects.In tire event that another car had been used after the stolen car was abandoned a I the lumber yard, road blocks were set up on all roads leading out of the northeast Tennessee area.; - - - -g' 111 ----BSHIRTS| any weight *1rmnkft!
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Middlesboro Daily News
Middlesboro, Kentucky, US
Mon, Aug 16, 1976
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