Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-12-16
THE CORINTH ROBBERY.
EuII Particulars from Memphis
Paper.


Paper.
The following account of the rob
berry of n bank in Corinth, Mississippi,
taken from the Memphis Apaldncbe,
differs in some particulars from the
account we published yesterday, and
is probably correct version of the
affair:
From gentleman who arrived from
there yesterday an AudldnchidR learn
ed the following particulars uf the rLb
berry For few Gays past, four men,
strangers, have been stopping in the
town, representing that they were
stock k-drovers, on their way from Texas
to their home in kentucky. They gave
as their reason for stopping at Corinth
a desire to rest their horses, four fine,
strong-looking brutes. They had con-
siderable gold with them, and frequent
visits were paid the bank for the pur-
pose of making exchange into paper
money, which seemingly could not be
satisfactorily done, as no gold was ever
exchanged.
Monday after dinner they paid their
board bills and had luncheon put up,
which they swung on their saddle,
with straps. 1t was noticed that each
man was armed with two navy skies,
but as they had been travelling IN wild
countries but little attention was paid
| to that. With the remark that they
would try the sbank once more to see
If they could get their gold changed,
they rode Off leisurely in that direc-
| ton.
When they got in front of the bank
three of them dismOunted, leaving on
ly one outside to hold the horses. The
three men walked into the bank. At
the time the only officer in was Mr..
| Taylor, President of the bank, who
was paying negro some money
When the last Of the three entered he
quietly locked the door, while another
one of the gang let down the shades
over the door aud windows. This
startled Mr., Taylor, who asked what
they meant by doing that. The reply
was, " We want your money, and you
! had better hand 1t over quick" Mr.
! Taylor said, Il can't do that"
"Then," said the leader, ave will
kill you "Oh," says Mr.. Taylor
81 guess you wouldn't kill person
would yOu"' THE hell we won't,
replied the leader, as he drew, large
bowie like flash and made slash al
Mr. Taylor, inilicting serious scalp
wound, from which the blood raj
very freely.
Seeing that the men would indeed
kill him, Mr.. Taylor gave them th,
key to the safe, which they at one,
opened. Their booty was s. 600 in
currency, diamonds TO the amount O
81, 500 and twelve gold watches, val
ued at about the same amount, tn
latter special deposits. They may hav,
taken little more money than tn
amount stated above, but that is abou
the total loss.
In the meanwhile the man outsid,
had had his little diversion. He sa
cock-a-leg on his saddle, seemiDgl,
eugrossed in his cigar, yet with an eJ
on the street. The first citizen wht
thought he was going by the bank
was greeted with the whistle of a re
rolver ball in close proximity to his ear
sent by the man on the saddle. HI
thought 1t little pleasantly until tn
next shot killed the dog running by
his side, when he moved himself
Another one who was coming from al
opposite direction moved out of tn
way after the first shot.
The three men in the bank havinl
finished their work, came out
mounted and putting spurs to thei
horses, all rode rapidly out of tn
town, taking a shot at every man the,
saw, in the meantime, but fortunatel,
hitting no one. News of the robber,
soon spread around, and a scene Of tn
widest excitement ensued. TIL
Sheriff summoned posse of armed
and mounted men, and was on tn
road in little over a half an hour
Nobody had been captured up to a Int
hour last night.
From the manner in which the rOb
berry was carried out, it looks yer,
much as If this job was done by III
same men who robbed the bank Q
Columbia, Kentucky, killing the cash
ier because he would not unlock tn
safe, and who successively robbed tn
banks at Russellville, Kentucky; tn
hank at st. Genevieve, Missouri, ,wher
they also killed the cashier, and a
Scranton, Iowa. All of these rObber
les were committed in the afternoon
at a time when but one or two person
were lin the banks. The man VIII
stays outside and holds the horses
does the same thing in every town
fires irdiscriminately at every persol
in sight, while the inside men do thei
work quickly and well.