New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-03
BOLD BANK ROBBERY.

One or the Most Daring Bank Rob
berries Ever Committed, Successfully
Worked at Denver.
DENVER. Colo, March 29-The boldest
and most successful bank robbery ever re-
ported in the West was perpet rated upon
the First National bank to-day The robber
succeeded in getting away with $4,000
The cashier of the bank gives the following
account Of the affair: Yesterday morning
imm ediate!v after the opening of the bank a
we'll dressed man with light moustacbe and
complexion and Of medium height walked
into the bank and asked Assistant Cashier
Ross Levin where he could see Mr. Motfatt,
president of the bank. Mr. Levin Informed
him that he could see Mr. Moffatt, who is
also president of the Denver & Rio Grande
railway, at the presidents Office in the
Cheesman block. Nothing more was seen or
heard of the stranger until this morning
when he entered the railway flee and asked
to see Mr. Moffatt on important business
He was admitted to his private room,
and briefly stated that he had dis
covered conspiracy whereby the First Ma
tional bank was to be robbed of large
amount of money. MIR. Moffatt told the man
he was very busy at that moment but would
be pleased to meet him at his private office
in the bank at l o'clock With this the man
left the building. A few minutes after the
hour appointed he called at The bank and
was shown into
THE PRESIDENTS OFFICE.
While remaining standing, he nquired if the
cashier, S. N. Wood, was in, and was told
that he was at lunch. He then asked for a
blank check for the purpose OF showing how
the robbery was to be perpeIrated. The
check was handed him; ne laid it upon the
desk in front of Mr.. Moffatt and said: II will
have to do this myself" and pulling q large
revolver from his coat placed it at Mr.. Moi
fatt's head, and in a decidedly earnest but
unexcited manner said:
want $2l 900. and am going to have it: I
have considered this matter and the chances I
am running and the consequences IL i fail and
arrested. am penniless and a desperate
man, and have been driven during the past week
TO that point where I have considered suicide
as the only means of escape from the poverty
and misery in which I exist. Yon have mill
ions, am determined to have what l have
asked for. If you make noise, call man or
ring bell. will blow your brains out and then
blow up the building and myself with this bot
tie of glycerine.
He at that moment pulled the explosive
out of another pocket and concluded: NOW
take your choice" Moffatt started to argue
with the man, but was stopped with the in
~
had but two minutes to fill out the check be-
fore him for So 900 if he desired to live.
Moffatt, seeing no other alternative, filed
out the check, and was then ordered to take
1t to the paying teller and get It cashed Mr..
Moffatt left his Office aud. with the m an be-
hind him with the revolver partially con-
cealed under his overcoat and with the
lnuzzle almost against Motfatt's back,
marched him behind the counter and up to
Paying Teller Kelley, with the request that
the check
BE IMMEDIATELY 4CAsHED.
They then remarched into Moffatt's Office
without attracting the attention of the ff-
teen twenty clerks who were busy at
work within two feet of where they passed.
After they had remained in the private Of
fee three or four minutes, the robber in
formed Mr.. Moffatt that they were wasting