The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-04-01
EMULATE THE DALTONS.
A BOLD BANK ROBBERY BY
BANDITS. 4,
The Bank Of Caney, Kan. Is De-
spoiled Of All It's Available
Cash In Broad Daylight
In Regular Dalton
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Coffeyville, Kan, March 28.-A bank
robbery partaking of the daring shown
At the famous Coffeyville affair last DC
tober, in which several of the participants
lost their lives, was enacted at Caney,
Kan, this afternoon. The only thing
missing to make it more closely resemble
the robbery in which the Daltons took
part was that nobody was hurt. III
bandits got $4,000 and have a good start
on their pursuers, and perhaps will never
be captured. Caney is a small town
eight miles south of here and very close
to the Indian Territory line. The bank.
robbed was the Caney Valley, the only
one in town. At 1:15 this afternoon
two men, who were recognized as the
notorious Henry Starr, an escaped con-
vict, and q man named Newcomb, en-
tered the bank unmasked and leveling
their weapons at the cashier and the
other e~mployes-four in all-demanded all
the money on hand. Without any d
the employees complied, and before five
minutes had elapsed from the time the
bendits entered the place they were in
possession of all the banks cash, about
$4,000. Nobody but the banks EN-
ployes were in the place, and as none on
the outside had noticed anything out OF
the way in their conduct, the bandits
had nothing especially to fear. Coolly
placing the money in bags with whlch
they had provided themselves, and warn
ing the bankers that they would meet IN
slant death should they attempt to make
an cutlery, the men backed out OF the
bank. Reaching the door, which was on
the main street, and by which the usual
number of people were passing, the
men hurried to their horses, which had
been hitched in front. and were soon on
their way at a rapid rate toward Indian
Territory. Nobody had particularly
noticed even their strange actions as they
ran for their horses and drove OFT, Int
as it was some time before the bank
employees recovered sufficiently from their
fright to make an alarm. the fleeing
men had plenty Of time in which to
gain Il good start on any pursuers.
When tie alarm was finally given, tie
news of the daring robbery spread rapidly
and a posse of citizens was quickly Or
ganized and started in hot pursuit. Be
fore the start could be made, however,
the robbers had secured an advantage OF
fully thirty mir utes, and it now seems
improbable that they can be caught up
with. Nothing had been heard from them
late tonight. The bank was soon sur
rounded and the still frightened bank
officials were too overcome to accurately
state their loss, further than that every
thing in sight in the money line had been
secured by their visitors. This will
easily reach $1,000, probably more.
Henry Starr is one of the notorious
Dalton gang, and only recently escaped
from jail, where he was imprisoned for
completely in the Coffeyville robbery in
October last. The officers in this part of
the country have been in constant search
for him lately, but could find no trace of
his whereabouts, though they felt con-
ident he would soon be ut his old game
and thus give them a new clew. New
ing figured in several misdeeds in Indian
Territory and contiguous country.