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BANK ROBBERS AT FLAT HOCKtis fully covered by burglar insurance.Two strangers appeared on thestreets this morning and were nego-Stamps and Coin to tin* Amount ol tiating to get their automobile pulled SIolM Taken by Burglars ' om 01* lhe (iitt.n at the edge of town A bold attempt to rob the Flat where they landed about midnight. Rock Bank, Thursday morning about Suspicions were aroused and they 2:30 was frustrated hv the prompt i were held at the bank and questioned and daring action of Harold Evarts. 1 by State’s Attorney Charles Jones Air. Evans was coming from his and ?! miff Parker. They gave their home to his restaurant, which is his n;r 1 s :nd said th^v were from Terre duty every morning to bake, and Hun* i. They gave as a reference when In* readied the corner of tin- om* of tin* Torre Haute banks which Al. E. church he heard some pound- tl ■ Flat Rock bank called up. In ing. He thought it was probably answer they said the men wlt;iv for-some one lixing his automobile, nier saloon men and did not bear which these days might be tin* case1 very savory reputations. It isat any time, and proceeded on his thought they are booze runr- . a! way. When he reached his restau- ' though none of tlndr goods v * i in rant Jie noticed two men cross the the car.—Flat Rock Journal.street from the hank corner. He--opened the front door and went inside and hack into the next room.When he came out to the door a mo- 1 ment afterward a man was standing there and when he started to shut the door the man commanded him not to shut it, with an oath. Harold slammed the door shut and ran to the i hack of the restaurant. When he . reached one of the doors he discov- t ered the glass had been broken out i by a man outside. He ran to the other door, opened it and ran out. i The man fired two shots at him without effect which only made him in- : crease his speed. When he reached Grant Tohill’s residence he aroused them and Grant Taylor was notified.Air. Taylor and others proceeded to the scene of action hut the robbers had taken iliglit. It is thought theyleft town in an automobile, the tracks of one being clearly visible near the station, but it is suggt sted that they might have left on a freight train which, it is said, was passing through at the time of their departure.Air. Taylor notified Sheriff Parker at Robinson, who came down immediately. He looked over the situation and gave as his opinion that it was the work of amateurs. No clews have as yet been discovered.The robbers “borrowed” tools at Daugherty’s blacksmith shop and also from C. L. Johnson’s. They gained entrance to the bank by prying open th’e window on the south side. They first attempted to dig a hole in the bricks on the north side Hut finally delided on the south and a hole large enough for aman to enter was dug through the doublebrick wall of the vault. A wooden •case with papers, old pass books, etc., in it was sitting against 'the wall where the hole was made and this was upset and the contents scattered over the floor. This was lucky for the bank, as they covered up some bags of silver which came in yesterday which the robbers might as well have had as not. A few dollars on the change tray were taken and also a box belonging to the postofllce which contained about a thousand dollars worth of stanmps and some money orders.The hank will suffer considerable inconvenience of having to straighten up the mass of papers which were scattered around and have the vault repaired, but outside of that no damage was done. Not even one safety deposit box was touched as far as can be seen. -Although the bank suffered 'but little loss, Air. Taylor tells us even if it had been greater no one would have lost a penny, because all loss
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Lawrenceville Lawrence County News
Lawrenceville, Illinois, US
Wed, Aug 02, 1922
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