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cius js aim 101a.th-le-ir.HAVE SOME FINGERPRINTSThe trail of the bandit gang which yesterday morning looted the Kaw Valley state bank of Eu-dora of 3,700 in cash was still cold today and Sheriff Jack Dunk-ley and his force had only jsome fingerprints upon which to depend lor clr.es.Onps;n-nd011The officers are making an intense search for some Eudora resident who might have seen the bandit car leave the city yesterday morning, shortly before 9 o'clock and for residents of the city who might have noticed a strange car there recently. So well planned and executed was the bank rob-, bery, during which W. C. Merrier, cashier of the bank, and Mrs. Merrier were L-Id captive, that the officers believe some members of the gang must have been in Eudora recently plotting the crime.heatheITStotc-h-d-teheiisis,ipatidnis21*tets»e. This morning . Mr. and Mrs. Merrier andl Miss Henrietta Schubert, teller, wlmj arrived at the bank yesterday morning for work and was . taken captive by the bandits, went to Kansas City, Mo., in an effort to make identification of two drug store bandits held there as possible- members of the gang which operated at Eudora but the effort failed.Sheriff Jack Dunkley and Deputy Sheriff Fred Vogler took the robbery victims to Kansas City where they viewed the suspects. Robert Atkins and Lee Marshal!, but could not ider.Llfy them. The two bandits who held Mr. and Mrs. Merrier captive in their home from 10 o'clock Thursday night until 4 o’clock yesterday morning and then took them to the bank were constantly blindfolded with large handkerchiefs and identification is difficult.County Attorney R. B. Stevens said today that he had written federal authorities at Kansas City,.Mo., asking if there is any way in which their aid might be enlisted in tracking down the Eudora bank bandits.Further checking on the cash at the’Eudora bank showed that the amount lost was slightly less than $3,700, according to Kelvin V. Hoover, vice-president of the institution. The loss is fully covered by insurance and replacement of the money , by the insurance company is expected within a day or two, Mr. Hoover stated.Sheriff Dunkley expected to send fingerprints taken from coffee cups r and saucers used by the bandits in the Mercier home Thursday night to department of justice headquarters at Washington, D. C., and to the state prison identification department at Lansing. The prints were to be sent today. _____ i»___ i.___
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Lawrence Journal World
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Sat, Mar 10, 1934
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