The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-17
Bloody Battle Between Citi-
zens and Bank Robbers.
CUBA TO BE FREE
Spain Soon to Cease Hostilities.
Fighting to Be Slapped After
Next March.
Worn out by Her Efforts TO Crush the
Cuban Patriots, Spain Has About
Abandoned All Hope OF Retain
ing Further Control of
the Island.

DENVER, Oct. 15.-According to the
latest advices from Meeker, Color, da,
which is 80 miles from the nearest L. l.
egraph office. the three men who were
killed there after rohbing q bank
have not been identified. One who
lived two hours after being shot, gave
names which are believed to be fcti-
cious. 1t is believed that one OF the
robbers is Thomas Mccarthy, who
aided in robbing the banks of Tellu-
! ride and Delta.
The robbery was one of the most dar-
ing ever perpetrated in the west, oc-
curing in broad daylight, when there
were 20 people in plain sight. Joe
Rooney, clerk of the Meeker hotel, had
stepped into the bank, which is To-
Gated in the general mercantile store
of j. W. Hagis, to make deposit, and
stood talking to Assistant Cashier Da-
vid Smith. AS he turned to leave he
felt Il heavy hand on his shoulder, and, +,
glancing up, was looking into the muz-
zle of revolver. The man with the
revolver commanded, "hands up"
At the same instant two shots rang out
and two bullets whizzed past the head
of the assistant cashier, who threw up
his hands.
Meantime the other two robbers had
covered the crowd in the store, COM
pelling them to assemble in the center
of the room and guarding both door
ways. Then Cashier Moulton was
called and one of the men. said to him:
"Open the safe and bequick about it. :"
At the point of a gun he was conducted
to the safe, which he opened, and the
contents of the drawers, 500, were
emptied intoa sack the robbers had
brought with them.
Not word was spoken, the robbers
going about their work with delibera-
tion that was astounding. After get
ting the money in the till, they
quietly gathered in all the firearms in
the place, helped themselves to cart
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the crowd to all go outside with them.
The crowd filed through the doorway,
followed by the robbers.
The robbers were not aware that the
place was surrounded. The crowd
they had driven from the store ran for
cover Citizens OF the town had been
uo rn cd hy tho tro Sh0tc frod IN tho
store, and arming themselves to the
teeth, surrounded the bank, quietly
awaiting the appearance ofthe robbers.
Deputy Game Warden w. III. Clark
noticed that three horses were fastened
at the rear door, and surmising that
the robbers would leave by that route,
took up his station short distance
from the back door and centered more
men at this place than any other, not
ueglecting, however to keep the front
door just as we'll Watched.
When the robbers saw they were
cornered, Charles Jones raised ariiie
he had taken from the store and fired
at Clark. The bandits were COM
manded to hold up their hands. but an
swered with fusilTade OF shots from a
dozen different directions. Jones and
Smith fell to the ground literally
riddled with bullets. Harris mortally
wounded. held his revolver, and, still
staggering, continued the battle uuti
he fell.