Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-03

at ths hotel Aiming themselves
With Winchester rifles they went TO
the hotel and waited under ''sllck
un g window until II o'clock, ana then
going to the hotel Office acquainted TIE
proprietor with their intentions to arrest
his guest. A bell hoy was sent 10 the
stranger IS room with word that 1t was 4 80
o 'elock, time to catch the Atchison train.
When the stranger entered the office he
was confronted with the police omcers
with Win chester rifles pointed squarely al
his breast. He never quivereo ,but looked
inquirlngly around. Throw up your
hands," Officer Smith gave command.
The stranger seemed to realize his situa-
ton then, but instead OF obeying
the command he thrust mana
in either side pocket or MS
overcoat to draw revolvers which only
few hours before had intimidated Cash
Ter Cohn OF the Valley Falls bank. As
the stranger made motion towards MS
weapons both Winchesters were
DISCHARGED SIMULTANEOUSLY
at his breast. The stranger fell dead
with one bullet through his heart and
another through the right lung. The
coroner was notified Immediately, and
before noon verdict was re-
turned generating the officers
OF any criminality In having
caused the death of the bank roboer,
self-defense being their excuse. Up 10
this time no search of the dead outlaw .
person had been made, but at Cashier
Cohn g request search was MADE anu tue
stolen money recovered. IN the
strangers boots were found two pack
ages of greenbacks of $500 each.
tn
been distributed among his various
pockets. The outlaw was positively
identified from a registered receipt dated
at Burlington, Kan, as one Robertson.
The money re, eipted for had been pay
able TO one D. s. Smith at Ottawa, Kan.
In Robertson g pocket was watch win
the initial "R - engraved upon it anu
foot rule bearing the same INITIAL.
Further particulars of the robbery OF
Hicks s Gephart's bank at Valley Falls
last evening 10y q daring outlaw nave
been received here. The stranger en-
tered the bank at O'Clock and asked
Cashier Cohen, who was BUSY,
inside the railing verifying the clerks
accounts for the day that he be allowed
to wait there for the arrival Of Dr.. GeD-
hart, president of the bank. The cash
Ter granted the request. A little later
the stranger remarked that he was SUI
fering severely from toothache aud
placed bis hand on his flannel bound face
in verifiCation of his remark
and reQueated that he be allowed
10 SIT by the stove inside the raining.
Again the cashier suspe"ting nothing
granted his request. The stranger orcu-
pied his seat quietly until the cashier,
having concluded his work entered the
T vault to lock up the money and BOOKS.
/ When he turned to leave the vault
/ he gazed into a brace of reVolvtrS
! leveled at his head by the neuralgia
/ stranger, who coolly requested him 10
/ hand over $40, 600, on the penalty OF
being imprisoned in the vault. The
! cashier parleyed for time, but fnnlhg
! himself wholly at the outlaw mercy ,
/ with death by suTocatiOn III the vault
as the only alternative, he handed over
all the cash in: the drawer, about S29OO .
The robber pocketed the money, locked
the front door OF the lank, made his exit
from the rear door, locking IL after nm
and made his escape. He neglected 10
take the front door key with him
End il was only minute before the
cashier released himself and gave the
alarm. The whole town turned out III
search of the outlaw, but he had made
good his escape kilograms were
sent by the sheriff to the
authorities of the surrounding towns
notifying them of the robbery and
asking them 10 arrest all suspicious per-
SONS. The outlaw fled to Meriden, Kan.
fifteen miles distant from the scene OF
the robbery. His detection and tragic
death there are told in another dispatch