Hide Article Text (OCR)
KROBBED LAST WEEK; Four Suspects Taken Near New Paris of, of, When attaches of the First Ntation-^elal Bank of Claysburg opened up form„ I business last Friday morning, they found everything in confusion they he' after investigation, discovered that he^ the bank had been entered during the he| night through a rear window and a il-1 bole six inches square burned in the of i steel door, of- the vault with the use of an acetylene tank. This hole gave the robbers access to the safty deposit boxes rented by customers of the bank which contained Liberty bonds, Bonds of the Standard Refractories Company and Greenfield town-besrt1n~•s*soorie ship school bonds. Officials were un-e31 able to determine th«e exact amountIjk I of the bonds taken as the bank hadI no record of these deposits but it | will probably reach $5000 in negoti-j able securities, consisting mostly of .p.j unregistered Liberty bonds. Some h,; registered Liberty bonds and bonds of ! the Standard Refractories company were also taken but the burglars3y7.i-would be unable to realize on them. The big safe was not tampered with at all. A careful investigation also revealed the_loss of $108 in small change, all of whifeh was covered by 1 burglary insurance. The job had all ■a ( the appearances of having, been done I by professionals as no fingerprints iT { could be found and the only clue on ,n which the authorities could work was , a pair of goggles and the acetylene j tank whielgr were left in the bank.n, However, on Saturday afternoon l four men were seen loitering about i.jNew Paris and Alum Bank and j several acetylene tanks were dis-l(j; eovered along the road. The finder, I remembering that such tanks were ; used in the robbery at Claysburg, be-! came suspicious and notified State Police Wyougel and Cobee who took up the search. About ten o'clock Saturday night they looked for the* tanks but they had been taken away and in I the trail led to. the. four men who had , 4 Been seen in the vicinity of New!e! Paris^a^d^ Altim Bank, •where therej are smlj-'trust company banks. The men were driving a large, Haynes touring ear and were overtaken on the road between Schellburg and New Paris and placed under arrest. When taken they were armed with revolvers and black jacks and in the car were found a number of chisels, acetylene burner tubing and a nozzle of an acetylene outfit. These tools have been indentified as those taken last Wednesday from a mine near Wind-e ber. The four occupants gave their 1 names as David Willett, Joseph j Blackburn, Ralph Andres and Harry Cunnings and their place of residence as Johnstown Joseph Blanketl-edtoa.*burn is well known in the vicinity of1eg*i-Alum Bank and New Paris, having gj relatives at those places. They were brought to the jail here early Sunday morning and bank officials from Claysburg visited here in an effort to ■ascertain what became of the loot, e,but they protested their innocence i and dented all knowledge_ of the ej- whereabouts of the bonds* taken.Information was made against the cl! four men before Justice of the Peace Isaac M. Irwin, of Hollidaysburg, by Robert W. Smith, Esq., solicitor for the Claysburg hank, charging them with the robbery on Friday morning and on Tuesday afternoon the men e1 were removed to the Hollidaysburg Pi iail awaiting a preliminary hearing I a-: Enroitte from Bedford to Hollidays-j \ burg the Claysburg bank was visited e! with a view to obtaining a confession e i from the four, but they still main-eetain their innocence While there the marks on the windows were compared with chisels found in the auto-- mobile and the comparison was*! was almost perfect.After the more serious charge or si robbery is disposed of in Blair county -i there will be another charge await-(3 inz them in Cambria county, that of , 11 stealing the tools from the Berwind-* I ‘White mine company.
Newspaper Details
Bedford Gazette
Bedford, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Dec 16, 1921
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
OH, USA 22 Jul 2019
Other Publications Near Bedford, Pennsylvania
Bedford Daily Gazette
Bedford County Inquirer
Bedford Gazette Weekend
Weekend Extra
Bedford Inquirer
