The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-01-10
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Successful Robbery of the Stock
Yards Bank North of East
st. Louis, Ill.
ROBBERS GET FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
They First Captured and Secured
the Watchmcn and Then leisure
ly Attacked the vault, the Mas
sive Doors of which Gave Why to
Nitro-Glyccrine.

st. Louis Jan. Silk masked men
robbed the Stock Yards bank at the
| National stock yards, north of East
! st. Louis, Monday night, after bind
ing and gagging two night watchmen
and the night fireman at the steam
plant.
| For nine hours these bandits held
undisputed sway over the premises.
| From seven O'Clock in the evening,
when they first appeared, until nearly
four o'clock Tuesday morning, when
| they departed with their booty CT
about $1,000 in coin and currency,
there was none to dispute their au-
thority.
Armed with siX-shooters and pro-
vided with complcte safe-blowing out
! fit, including all the tools and nitro
glycerine, they picketed the premises,
captured, beat t,andguarded the watch
men, dynamited their way throueh
the heavy doors of vault and safe,
and worked their desperate will with
out hindrance.
| Captured Night watchman.
Lee Philpot, II night watchman at
the Stock Yards exchange, building,
in which the bank is located.
| Philpot is Il member of the noted
family in Clay county. Ky, which has
been engaged in fierce feuds with
other families for generations. He
was one of the boldest of the feu,
lists, but quit the county year ago,
when the settlement of the White.
Oarrard feud, to which the Philpots
were party, was brought about
From 1880 o'clock Monday evening
until $40 Tuesday morning Philpnt
lay bound hand and foot with ropes.
a towel tied tightly about his ewes,
and another towel thrust into his
mouth as n gag.
Capture second Watchman
AT midnight one of the robbers who
had been sent outside caught Albert
Estep. another night watchman, on
the steps of the Exchange building.
at the northeast side. He called Es-
tep by name.
The watchman thought the bandit
an acquaintance and advanced, not
prepared to shoot. He found himself
covered by a siX-shooter.
Under threat of death he was
marched TO the composing room.
where he was thrown to the floor, and
bound and gagged in the same man
ner that Philpot had been served
Several of the bandits then pro-
ceeded to the steam plant, where
Night Fireman l.. w. Clark was in
charge and alone.
They took Clark completely by sur
/ prise. He resisted at first, but was
subdued by being beaten. lie re-
ceived a severe bruise ever his left
eye, probably from sandbag.
One Left as Guard.
Clark was taken to the printing of
flee and placed beside the other pris-
oners, similarly bound and gagged.
This was about half an hour after
midnight.
One man was left to guard the
three captives. while the other five
went into the bank. Then went in at
the main entrance.
The bank is located on the first
floor of the Exchange building. The
vault is opposite the main entrance
which was not locked, the night
watchman being supposed to guard
the corridor.
With nitroglycerine the robbers
blew open the massive steel doors of
the vault. These doors are of double
thickness of steel. The charge shat
tered them, blowing the banks books
and papers into shreds. From some
blown out.