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PARK SPRINGS BANK ROBBED OF $2,700Seven Charges Force theVault Doors.Some time between the hours 2 and o'clock Monday morning burglars wrecked the safe of the state bank at Park Springs and made away with $2,700 in greenbacks and silver. Seven charges of nitroglycerin were used to force the vault, and when the citizens of the town, aroused by the explosions, arrived on the scene, all the money, amounting to a few dollars. left bv the burglars was scattered on the floor of the building. Sheriff Sam Faith immediately upon j receipt of the information left for1 Park Springs. Officers from Ilowie were also called. 1 he burglais, it seems, have done a complete job.leaving no clue.A voung man by thenameof Arthur’arks was arrested Monday in Boyud brought here Tuesday and placed jail'. Parks was.taken to be one of; ic men who burglarized the Park iprings bank, but after an account-lg of his whereabouts before, during nd after the hunk robbery he was 1 lowed to go. there being no evi-ence by which he could be connected ith the Park Springs job. The next lorning following the bank burglary arks, aboard of a freight car, pass-1 through Bridgeport. Putting his ead out of the “side-door sleeper ) catch a breath of fresh air as the ’ain was running through the Coal ity, a minion of the law who was at le station at the time, spied him and honed a hurried call to Boyd toive the man apprehended and held
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Decatur Wise County Messenger
Decatur, Texas, US
Fri, Feb 07, 1913
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