The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-06-03
BANK ROBBERY.
Particulars ofthe Day Outrage
I'm ste. Genevieye, MO.

IN Ste. 8enoNiCSSs oAos
Mr.. O. D. Harris, cashier OF the
bank at Ste. Genevieve, Mo-, which
was 90 boldly robbed in broad daylight
on Tuesday morning Last, has arrived
10 St. Louis, and gives the following
account of the outrage:
At the opening Of the bank, the
cashier and a son of Gen. F. A. Rozler
were standing on the steps of the insti-
tuition, and saw two men walking down
the street and looking up intently at
the bank. In q few minutes the men
turned around and walked up the steps
into the bank, the cashier preceding
them. He started to 60 behind the
counter, and when he had got about
half way one of the men put two navy
revolyers at his head and commanded
him to open the safe. At the same
time the other man drew pistol on
young Rozler, threatening to kill him
il he opened his mouth. The young
man instantly jumped down the steps,
and running into the streets, gave the
alarm. The fellow fred at him, the
ball grazing his shoulder and cutting
through his coat. In the meantime,
the cashier, intimidated by the threats
of the robber inside, opened the safe,
when the latter made a grab at
the money and got q package
containing $500 in notes and
boz containing some gold coin, sup
posed to amount to about $2OO. Also,
some notes and valuable papers be-
longing to the Sheriff of the county:
By this time the other robber returned
10 the bank, and the two then forced
the cashier to 90 about two hundred
wards from the bank, where two more
men and four horses were found walt
iug. As the party came up one OF the
hoxses got loose and ran of, and at the
same moment q German came along
in a country wagon. The robbers halt
ed him, and compelled him by threats
20 20 after the runaway horse. In a
short time he returned with him, and
ell four Of the band, after taking the
cashiers gold watch from his pocket,
mounted their horses and fed with their
booty. After they had got 8 start OF
about fifty PAGES, one OF the party
turned and fired a shot at Mr.. Harris,
CRYING Hurrah for Hildebrand" The
robbers struck out on the road leading
toward Arkansas.
In consequence OF the alarm given by
M,. Rozier and the firing Of the shots.
On shout twenty minutes nearly dozen
neu. armed with shot guns, started In
pursuit of the robbers. Three OF the
party casae up with them and were
driven back, aud in short time nearly
all the town Joined in the pursuit. but
the daring desperadoes had escaped.
When it is reflected that the bank, as
1t is called (the title is the Ste. Gene
We've Savings Association stands IN
the uost populous part OF the town,and
that the street through which the CASH
ser was forced to follow the robbers is
one Of the most frequented,t the audacity
of the exploit will be understood. 1t is
difficult to conceive how it could have
resxlted 80 successfully. Gen. Bozier,
Who ia President of the institution. has
been ct Jefferson City several days, at
tending Tie State Board Of Equalization
of which he is Q member. The night
previous to the robbery his dwelling at
Ste. Genevieve was broken into, and, as
it is now supposed, by this gang. They
obtained nothing there.