The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-16
BOLD BANK ROBBERY
Yonkers Bank Robbed In Broad
Daylight by Two Men.
CASHIER INTIMIDATED BY REVOLVER
The Thieves Then Coolly Proceeded to
Help Themselves to the Cash and
Made Their Escape
In Safety.

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president of the Yonkers Savings bank
was in a rear room separated from
them by a partition so thin that he
could have heard a word uttered above
an ordinary tone of voice, two young
men held up the cashier of the institu-
tion, took $4,000 in cash and escaped
without leaving behind any trace Of
their Identity.
The robbery was one of the most
daring ever committed in or near this
city. Cashier Cobb was so badly
frightened that he could give no accu-
rate description of the robbers after
they left, although they were not
masked.
A young man entered the bank
shortly before noon and asked to have
81 bill changed. The cashier did not
know the man, who was respectfully
dressed. The bill was changed, and
the cashier turned to his books. think
ing that the stranger had left the
bank. There were no other customers
in the bank at the time.
The bank, which is the Oldest In
Yonkers, stands at one. side of Getty
square. After mounting three or four
steps, the visitor passes through a
broad door to the interior of the bank.
On his left, beginning at the wall in
which the entrance door is cut and
extending back about So feet, runs a
polished wooden counter surmounted
by brass screened railing. in which
are cut openings. and behind which
sit the cashier and teller of the bank
The space inside the railing is about
20 feet wide, inclosed also at the rear
by counter and railing, which run to
within three feet of the wall to the
left of the entrance. There they cease
and gate fills up the interval, leav-
ing an oblong cage. by means of which
the bank officers are shut off from GUS
toners.
Guarded the Presidents Room.
To the rear, separated from the rest
of the ground floor of the building by
partition extending the whole width
of the bank anlMreaching to within
four feet of the Ceiling, is the office of
the president, Henry Williams The
door in the partition is about midway
between the two side walls, so that a
NaFln standing opposite the door of the
pfesiqeuEF pNlQar rip.t the passageway at
the rear would have to baznassed by
any one going from the d56I~nE =
the cashiers and telIet's cage io the
front door Of the SANK openinR III The
square, Hlffu NliIa ii t4ffin
After ths cashier had disposed Of thi
stranger who, ne thonaht. had ltft the
bank, he was called from his b06l1rs 81
another young man, who stood at the
window in the brass work railing near
the outside bank door.
With this man Cashier Cobb engaged
in conversation about a deposit the sup
posed customer intended to make. The
stranger appeared to be waiting for
something. Seeing that Cobb had no.
ticed his evident expectancy the stran-
ger said that a friend of his, a man of
the name of Edwards. had promised to
meet him at the bank by noon when
| the two intended to make deposit to
] stand jointly in their names. The stran-
J ger looked at his watch. 1t was 1910
o'clock. He remarked to the cashier
that his friend was late. He himself
] would go, he said, and return in few
EaA2inutes. If Edwards came and inquir-
ed fos:.. his friend, would Cobb kindly
notify theMsran of his contemplated re-
turn?
The cashier W9AHId be pleased to, he
said, as he turned fteSm the window tC
another desk inside the casze AS h,
stepped to the inside desk Cobb-MsStice
something black under it.
"There appears to be a dog under
here, he said, half to himself and gave
the object kick. AS he did so it arose
from under the desk and Cobb saw
that it was man with a black hat and
carrying a revolver in one hand and
roll Of billo in tho ofha,
He covered Cobb with the revolver,
while with the bills he partly screened
his face. Cobb gasped in astonshment,
and in a loud, determined voice the
robber said, 'If you make a move, you
are dead man"
AS the cashier half turned, hoping for
assistance from the man outside the
railing, he saw that the second visitor
had thrust his arm through the tellers
window and, with another revolver,
was covering him from the rear.
Firearms Handy.
At the corner of the cage. near where
the doorway opened into the rear pass
age, was burglar alarm, and a load
ed revolver lay on a table. The inside
robber was retreating slowly toward
the doorway. keeping the cashier al
ways covered with the revolver, so that
he could not reach either the alarm or
the revolver on the table. At last the
robber reached the doorway ran down
the passage and out the front door
Relieved of the tension. the cashier
stood dazed for an instant. Then he set
off the alarm, and, grabbing a revolv-
err ran to the front door in time to
see the two robbers running up the
street toward the railway station.
While the second man was talking
to Cobb the first stranger. who had
not left the bank after having the bill
changed, had sneaked quietly along the
passage into the rear door of the cage.
had robbed the cash drawer 10 feet
from the cashiers left hand and had
started to escape when the cashiers
turn had surprised him.
After the robbery the president and
cashier made an investigation and
found that $4,000 had been taken. The
plunder was mostly in bills ranging
from 81 to $l00 A roll of 10 $50 bills
bad been overlooked.
Cobb was so badly frightened that
he could give no accurate description
of the robbers who had held him up
further than that they were both
young men about 5 feet 10 inches in
height and the first one wore a black
hat.