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[DAY EVENING, MARCH 23THE BANK ROBBERY.0gt. Who Committed It Vet an Un-mt- solved Question.time 3 let-have beenAll (be Arrested Parties to be Held tor Indictment—Statement ot tbe Bank—Tweo-post- ty-flve Thousand Dol-how- lars Taken.day,I [Indianapolis Journal, March 23. ]. ai)^ I The bank robbery is still tbe all-absorb-[ve J ing topic of conversation on the street. If a?. that be possible, there are even more . 1T rumors afloat than there were the day it eciai happen^ Nearly every one has seen or 0 heard of a man who corresponds to the thief, and the authorities are bored nearly H' * to death by fame*seeking theorists who de 8 sire to tell them just how the capture of the thief is to be effected. The probabilities are deepening that the four men t i already in custody are implicated in the affair, and there hardly seems a doubt but rmy I that cases can be substantiated against them all.messADDITIONAL DETAILS OF THE PLAINFIELDABREST.*ens. were onu-it is -2are- There have been no new developments[one [since the account in yesterday morning's the Journal, but the following additional details ease. I regarding the men already arrested have don been gleaned. Fairbanks and Kennedy, i. the two men arrested at Plainfield were first t the se®n at Bridgeport, Tuesday alternoon, at ord about 4 o’clock. They stopped at the house for_ of a Mrs. Brown and begged to hire a team lion t0 take them to Plainfield. The lady was put I rather afraid of their appearance and called tion I *a her two sons. The supposed robbers tbeu glow I offered her quite a sum of money if she light would let her boy drive them to their des-8et- tination. She assented, the money was is in (paid in advance, and the trio were landed the Ua,ely in Plainfield between five and six milt I o'clock of the same evening. The boy hole turned his horse’s head towards home and xen. the men without a suspicion as to their I he real idea in emigrating. The suspected the 1 were brought to lodianapolis, but they Xhe utterly refused to impart any information sion at all concerning anything.the PARTIAL IN DENTFIC AT ION.3XtEd. Mason, the messenger of tbe bank, called at the station house and looked through the bars at the Plainfield men.He is almost of the opinion that Kennedy ‘ty I is the man who did the stealing; only, if he he did, he wore a wig and a different suit of I f°; of I clothes. When the robber entered the he an, | bank he held the box in front of bis face we and had his cap pulled over his eyes. This, | h Ige together with his exceedingly short stay ler and the absence of any conversation, makes re, it very difficult for him to be recognized, ed | Mr. J. J. Koerner, of the Commercial College, stood in front of the bank and saw the thief come out. He called at the station house and thinks heideuitfies Kennedy as the man, but he will not swear.THE ARRESTED MEN TO RE HELD.There is not the shadow of a doubt but that they are concerned in the affair. They and Wells and Kelley will be held untilpapers cab be made out for their indictment. They will be obliged to stand a rigid examination before they can escape the clutches of the law.Chief Dewey still sticks to the opinion that the robber escaped on a horse up North. Others suppose him to be in the heart of the city disguised. The most probable theory is that the right man is Southgate, who was allowed to slip through the hands of the authorities by crooked work on the part of the outsiders Wednesday night, lie has not been seen or heard of since, and it is not likely that any trace of him will be found.md,?en-thethelemheyererhe an t of the c.mglent, for )m-ven was t ofThetbefivetheadeirgenil,ioming.ase,fol-ISTATEMENT OF THE BANK.Mr. Taylor, cashier of the bank, states that be was not at the stove warming his feet when the robbery was committed, but was sitting at his desk looking over some mortgages. Mr. Blythe was warming his feet. There was $31,000 in $500 packageslying on the counter, and the robber grabbed up $26,000 of this amount. He dropped $1,000, in two packages, and conse* de- quenlly only carried away the amount first ict_ stated, $25,000. Concerning tbe condition im- °f the bank, Mr. Taylor states that it is te’8 one of the strongest and wealthiest » in the State. Its management has always been sound and conservative, and its stock has been in demand at high figures, having sold lately at $1 45. The n j bank grew out of the State banking system, in„ having been the Indianapolis branch of the / Bank of the State. It was organized in n 1865, with a paid up capital of $400,000,which was afterwards increased to $500,-f 000, its present capital. Its accumulated d a surplus fund is $175,000, the largest, with one exception, of any bank in the State. Its stockholders are mainly old residents. So far as the loss is concerned, in com-3.toln^ parison with the wealth of the bank, it is a drop in the bucket, and will soon be wipedsms ui-i aneraout.Captains Forbes and Campbell and Detective Locke last night brought in Charles House on suspicion of complicity in the^ut’ bank robbery. House is a comparatively vas Granger *n the city and is rather on the“awell” order. The officers are reticent as to the grounds upon which they base the l# charge, from which it is inferred that theyPk have a weak case or are laying for others.tnlt;v
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New Albany Daily Ledger Standard
New Albany, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 23, 1877
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