The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-26
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It Il Secured BY Darlne Craoksm.n
i at Hurley. WIA-Ho G0es Through the
Vault Of the Iron Exchange Bank, So.
ouros Nssrly oA0. O0c, and Escapes with.
out Leaving azTracs Of His Identity.
ASHLAND, Wis Sept The most clev-
erly planned, daring and successful bank
robbery in the criminal annals of this State
was executed at Hurley Friday night, when
the Iron Exchange Bank was entered by
robbers and nearly $4,000 in cash, left
there for the night by the United States
E4press Company, was taken. Periodicals
II the Ashland and Germania Mining COM
pany. pays of Its employees, numbering
over 1000 who work In the iron mines
near Hurley, and for this purpose al, TO
was shipped from the Ashland National
Bank to Hurley Friday. The treasure was
sent In dozen sacks, and upon it's arrival
in Hurley little after O'Clock p m.
1t was removed to the Iron Ex-
change Bank in = wheelbarrow The time
lock Of the safe inside the vault had been
set and the cash could not be put inside of
it The company's agent consented to
have the money placed in the vault outside
the safe for tho night. 1t was not c n
sidered deposit, and the agent was given
no receipt "a
After the express package containing
the mining compapy's money had been
locked up the cashier, Mr.. Reynolds, with
the paying teller left tho place and went
to the theater. They were very late. as
the affair at The bank had kept them until
nearly ~ o'clock. A little over
an hour afterward Mr. Reynolds
returned to the bank, in which
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are situated, and as he passed the door
with J. y. Langdon a friend who intended
spending the night with him, he looked
into the brightly-ighted room and saw the
vault door was ajar. With an exclamation
the young man opened the door and en-
tered the counting-room, followed by
his companion. The outer vault door was
nearly half open, and touching against
it, wide open, stood the inner vault
door. The package which the cashier
had left an hour before on the stone floor
of the vault was gone. The other contents
OF the vault had been disturbed but little,
it ut all, but over the floor, out in the
counting room, an even in the sleeping
room adjoining, gold and silver coins were
found. The package had been opened, and
some of the coin was rejected, as 1t was
found In q corner of the vault
The alarm was given at once, and in m
hour the whole town was aroused, and hum
dreds of detectives, professional and anna
teur, had begun the task Of finding the
robber. A couple Of gentlemen who passed
the bank at 1879 said they saw
man working at the door of the vault,
but as he had on the cashiers we'll
known office coat and cap, and as the cleo
trio lights were so bright that no thought
nj N rif3i,,cp "a r,1ono ho
tanned, they passed on without suspicion
that the man they looked at was the cool
est robber on record and that fortune was
just in his grasp. Following quickly on the
heels of this statement came a man bearing
the cashiers coat and hat which he
had found in an alley short
distance from the bank The roads,
both rail and wagon, leading from
town wero at once put under guard, and
men went galloplng out on every highway
in the hope of overtaking the fugitive, but
there was absolutely no trace of him.
Some person had entered the bank either
by transom over the rear door or by q
key, had opened the outer vault door, to
do which he must have known the combi-
nation, and had opened the inner door,
which required Yale key OF q pattern not
easily duplicated
Cashier Reynolds, when seen, said that
no one but himself and Assistant Cashier
Perrin had ever obtained the combination
OF the vault door. The officers OF the bank
held meeting Saturday, and after the
most careful inquiry decided that Cashier
Reynolds and the teller could not have
been implicated in the affair It
was agreed that as the bank had
given no receipt for the money and
n NV oooonto6 tho Of In with
pense in an irregular manner and purely
from accommodation, they could only he
held for ordinary care, which was exer-
cised when both doors were locked on the
treasure. Consequently the express COM
pany must lose the money
The original package cont ined $41 600;
nearly ~ 900 was left behind, either in the
vaults or scattered about the floors. Con-
sequently the robber must have secured
s39,OO0 The weight of the money is so
great that no man could carry it
on his person any distance without
arousing suspicion. and this leads to
the belief that the coin has been buried
somewhere at or near the town and that it
will probably remain there until it is safe
for the daring culprit to return and dig it
up. The paper money could easily be
carried by one man without suspicion,
but all travellers will be subjected to Sc
we're espionage for weeks to come. Hurley
Is always honored with the presence of
a large number of rough characters. Some
times they are men who work occasionally
at the mines, but oftener they belong to
the class that never tolls. These persons
are being watched tonight and every sus.
ptcious act is noted 1t Is thought the
regular custom of sending these large sums
OF money from Ashland to this city has
been known to outsiders, aud that they
have been planning this crime for months
They could have secured the keys and
waited till the favorable opportunity of.
fered, and to learn the combination would
then be their only task
The Iron Exchange Bank has capital of
5000 and Is othcered as follows: James
{. Reynolds, president; Willis s. Reynolds,
cashier. It is State bank and was in
corporated in 1885.
The mines Of the Ashland Mining Com
pany and those Of the Germania Mining
Company are located hele. The Ashland
Mining Company Ia composed OF the Hayes
Bros. Of this place and tho Colby Br, g. of
Milwaukee. The Germania mine is owned
by the Hayes Bros.
MILWAUKEE, Sept ga special from
Hurley says there are no developments in
Vhe OdnA IoUOo1y WHICH, Way COIuln1CCeu
there late Friday night, and by which
thieves obtained nearly $4,000 belonging
to the United States Express Company. No
clews have been found and no arrests as
yet have been made. Sunday morning the
man who found Mr.. Reynolds coat and hat
found bag containing $735 in silver dollars
on the site of the old foundry. This amount
| was Immediately turned over to the ex-
press company.
HARD UP.
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