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SEEK ROBBERS OF ELMA BANK; S600 MISSINGBelieve Three Bandits in Party; Third Holdup In WeekElma la —iff* lt;—Iowa authorities Thursday were concentrating on a search for bank bandits who since Fat,;rday have iooied a bank every other day in thiv state.The bank robbery scene shifted fat Wednesday to Elma when two bandits entered the People’s Savin a bank lined up two bank officials and three customers, and e*rapefi with more than SHOO A third bandit was believed to have been waiting in the car parked before the hank.The present scour** of bank robberies, which has seen as many looting* in less than a welt;-k than had been staged during the first four months of the year, began Saturday a' Le Mars, Iowa, when handits believed to be the Denning Limerick gang, took 15,000.Monday bandits, thought by of ficers to he s separate band, looted the Farmer*- Trust and Savings hank at Buffalo Tenter of 11,022. These bandits have been tentatively Identified a s the robbers who struck hereNo Arrests Yet So far no arreats have been made in these three robberies.In January the Farmers Savings bank at Leighton was looted of ] $1,040. but iwo men were convicted lt;and sentenced for the robberv In | February the iowa State bank wa« ] robbed of $1,270. Again two men lt;were found guilty and sent to pris- t on In April the College Savings , bark at Ames wss raided and ] $4,552 obtained. One suspect is , held at Ames for hearing. 1Entering the local bank quietly, j the two bandits drew revolvers and ] forced a bank examiner and an as- j distant rashier to lie on the floor behind the counter, and lined three j customer* up with their face* to f the wall rExaminer Norman Sage and As-sisiant Cashier Walter Diekman. y who were working behind the coun- r ter. promptly oheyed the command j to Lie on the floor, and he quick 7 about it.** cThe three customers. .Joe Hilsman. j( Joe Belik and Mary Mulick, quickly j turned their face* to the wall and ^ stood with hands above their heads y at the orders of one of the gunmen. r Appoaring nervous but working y rapidly, one of the men then scoop- , cd the loose cash and currency j from the tills The loot w-as esti-1 ^ mated by officials, pending a check, a at between $600 and $700.Start* Bandit Car -yWhile one man kept the five per- ^ sons in the room covered, the other *lt;■ backed through the door and started ti a car which had been parked in the j road just outside the bank nThoir car, described as «Ford V-8 ( a brown-colored sedan carrying Iowa j license plates with 66 county num-, ^ hers, was said to have headed w^eat 1 j out of town, in the direction of ■ Charles City.Police at Osage and the Howard y county sheriff's office immediately . were notified. ^A second bank examiner, R. R Blair, and the bank’s cashier, ^ t harles E Gorman, were working j in a back room and were not aware J of the robbery until the bandits had left.Authorities w*ere told that one bandit appeared to be about 25 years old and to weigh about 160 pounds and was wearing a light brown topcoat His companion was described as about 27 years og age, weighing about ISO pounds and was dressed in a dark suit.One of the men. Sage said, held bis right hand over his face and carried his revolver in his left hand
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Thu, May 16, 1935
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