The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-19
BANK CASHIER SLAIN.
Killed While Guarding the Cash
in His Hands.
BODY FOUND IN A POOL OF BLOOD.

The Robbers and Murderers Secure All |
the Money i'm the Bank Except IA So Gold
Piece and Make Their Escape-The Vic
tim Pounded to Death, After Which His
Head Was Nearly Severed from His
BOdy-Two Arrests Made.
Somersworth, n. H., April 19.-Cash-
Ter Joseph A. Stickney of the Great
Falls National bank i'm this city, yield
ed his life Friday after a desperate but
futile struggle to prevent robbers from
taking the banks cash. His lifelesss
body was found with the skull broken
by a heavy stick and with the throat
cut. 1t lay in a great pool of blood,
and the walls and Office furniture bore
sickening testimony to his fight as
| guardian of the cash, and then his
struggle for life itself. The amount of
booty secured by the robbers is mat
ter of conjecture. All the cash except
IS gold piece is missing, and this is
estimated to be $4,000, though it may
be much more. No one but Stickney
knew how much was in the vault at the
time.
| Overlooked 800, 900 i'm Bonds.
one remarkable feature, showing the
hurried manner in which the robbers
did their work, is the fact that they
overlooked SlOO,O 600 in United States
bonds. kept in one of the drawers OF
the vault. None of the negotiable pa
per or bank securities was touched,
the robbers-conje from appear
ances to be two in number-evidently
| .....,1 tnly
cash. If has always been customary
for Cashier Stckney and the BANK
clerk. Mrs. Parker Swanzey, to close
the bank at noon and not reopen
until o'clock Friday Mrs. Swanzey
left her desk at the usual time, put the
cashier remained looking over the ac-
counts. and it is thought he was pre-
pairing to go out when the roppers en-
tered. The first suspicion that the pahf
had been robbed was shortly pelore
o'clock. when Frank L. Reed went vi
the staircase of the bank buildihs am
found that the thick plate glass IN TN
front outside door OF the pank Nav
been completely shattered. he at one
notified City Marshal Eaton, and the!
broke in the door and found the poo'
OF Stickney.
Head Nearly severed.
His head had been nearly severe
from the body. and was marked VIII
l.. several deep gashes and bruises mao
nv a heavy blackjack, the skul pe
ing crushed in. The outside door ma
heen locked by Mr.. Stickney after Mr.
swanzeys departure, and wnen u
z robbers found they could not open
they smashed the plate glass Whie
formed the upper half OF it. The me
then crawled through the hole mac
an the door. The inside door Whl.
led into the apartment behind u
counter was fastened by heavy lro
har Marks have been found shoWli
- that one of the men had endeavoreu
> raise the iron bar and Cashier Stickh'
endeavored to keep the bar In It's piao
The robber was too much for the cas-
,er for the door was forced open
. was then that the cashier made ms la
stond and after a short but nero
struggle was felled. Physicians W
have examined the body say IL Is d
na, ut that the victim was pounoeo
. deatb Another fact brought out at
autopsy is that the weapon useo
80, tho victims throat was medlu'
siyed knife. the blade of whlch
- 80 dull and left a deep and irregu
wound.