Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-12-15
THAT BANK ROBBERY.
Particulars Of the Hold Up and Rob-
berry Of Sierra County Bank,
TWO Determined ROBBERS.

III COuueCllOH Will what ING Clt!ZeH
has already published regarding the
hold up and robbery Of the Sierra
county bank at Hillsboro, the Advo-
cate says:
The Sierra county bank at this place
was held up Wednesday afternoon
about 2:30 O'Clock and robbed.
It appears that two men. Americans.
mounted on small dark bay horses, IN
tered town from the north, by way of
the North Percha road. They tied their
horses to a corral fence back of the
bank building and approached Main
street by way Of an alley along the
west side of the bank. They were first
noticed walking one up and the other
down the street; but there was moth
ing noticably suspicious about them
and no particular attention was given
them.
After accommodating they met at the
bank door and started to enter; but
there was a lady in the bank at the
time, and they withdrew a short dis
lance until she had come but. They
then entered and throwing down on
w. H. Bucher, the cashier, and Lee
Crews. the clerk, demanded hands
up" One of the men then stepped to
the door and closed It and drew the
curtains.
After effecting the robbery the hold
ups marched Mr.. Butcher and Mr..
Crews out through the back yard to
the corral, and. mounting their horses,
the robbers rode out of town by the
way they had come. the North Percha
road. Mr.. Butcher Immediately gave
the alarm, and soon Alfred Sheppard
and Martin Kelley started on their
trail. About two miles out the robbers
left the creek bottom, turning over the
hill into Cold Spring gulch, going
down that toward the Dad to the Pla-
GERS. the same way they came in.
Sheppard and Kelley did not get
near enough to them to see them, but
they were met both coming and going
by w. C. Kendall and Light Townsend
on the North Percha road. A. B. Paige
also saw them as they were coming in,
and had to step out of the road to let
them pass.
The last accounts of their being seer
is given by a Mexican who saw them
on the Animas creek, about nine miles
from here.
The men, although strangers. must
have been pretty well posted as to the
surroundings of the bank, and could
not have selected a more favorable
! time for their undertaking. The street
: was almost decerted and they must
have known that both Sheriff Robins
and his deputy were away. Nobod,
on the street or in the vicinity haC
any idea that a robbery was going on
( 1t was done so quickly and quietly
r Barely fifteen minutes interviewed be
S tween the time the robbers entered
town and the time of their departure
One of them was noticed TO walk a
il lame, but this may have been cause'
by having a rifle in his trousers leg
L. They were armed with Wincheste
carbines and six shooters and rod
small dark ponies, a dark bay and
brown, which, from the appearance @
n. the tracks, must have been shod wit
20 No. 90 shoes. The men had on sma
sized cowboy boots and spurs, as wa
at indicated by their tracks.
ID The loss, which is % so large as &
re first reported, is fully covered by bur
10 larry insurance, and the bank sustain
Id nc loss whatever.
TT Following is a description of the tw
men as given by Mr.. Bucher:
The larger of the two men was lars
i'd and heavy set, broad shoulders, sand
N moustached and complexioned, o.
gray SLOUGH hat, old yellow duck COZ
and vest and old overalls and boot!
to weight about 200 pounds. height abol
to 6 feet and & from 25 to 80 years.
ry The smaller of the two men was
little above the medium height, abo
at one weeks growth of beard on fac
dark complexioned, black hat, cord
roy coat and vest, gray pants, boo
and spurs, weight about 40 pound
height about 8 feet ten inches, a