Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-10-13
BLOODHOUNDS
FOLLOWED TRAIL
Man Accused of Treynor
Bank Robbery
Arrested.
Is A LOCAL SAL00NKEEPER
Lives Almost Across Street From
Looted Bank-karl kerrer Must
Face the Charge-Search Of Prem
ises Reveals No Money.

Council Bluffs, Oct. 8.-Trailed to
his home in Treynor by bloodheunds.
Karl Karrer, a saloon keeper, was
found in bed and arrested by officers
at midnight. He denies all knowl-
edge of the bank robbery and made
no resistance. No money was found
on him or in the house. Karrer was
brought to Council Bluffs by officers.
The dogs took the trail ten miles
north of Treynor, followed it through
corn fields and woods to the Treynor
road, into town and up to Karre's
home. almost directly across the
street from the bank.
Karrer had not been sean since the
robbery until located by the dogs.
Council Bluffs, Oct. S.-While the
majority of the male inhabitants of
Treynor were in Council Bluffs at
tending the German celebration, an
unknown man entered the Treynor
Savings bank and at the point of re-
volver held up the bookkeeper, Miss
Frances Flood, compelled her to turn
over to him between S1,4O0 and $1,700
in cash and then, locking the young
woman in the vault made off.
The robbery was done single hand
ed and at 2:30 o'clock in the after
noon. A half hour later Louis and
Adolph Bolmeier called at the bank
and released the young woman from
her prison, heard her story and gave
the alarm. The rural telephone was
used to great advantage, horses were
secured with much difficulty, the
county sheriff, Council Bluffs police
and officers of the bank were notified
and a posse was soon searching for
the robber.
Though searching parties have been
on every road leading from Treynor,
che robbers are still at large.
A report reached here from near
Treynor that an unknown man aban-
doned a rig in farm yard and struck
off through the fields and woods along
Silver Creek. This man was seen by
a woman in the farm house who says
that he answers the description of the
robber, and that the buggy left by
him answers the description Of the
buggy supposed to have been used. A
deputy sheriff and posses hurried to
the place and will follow the trail
left by the unknown man. The officers
are at loss to know how the fugi-
tive doubled back on his track dur
ing the night without being seen by
one Of the many parties that are
searching the roads and fields.
Miss Flood experienced no i'll eff
fects from her confinement in the
vault, nor was she suffering to any
great extent from the nervous shock
naturally caused by being held up
by a bank robber, when seen by a
correspondent at Treynor shortly af
ter she had been released. She told
her story simply and clearly.
Council Bluffs, Oct. 10.-Though
Karl Karrer, who is in Jail here on
suspicion of icing the Treynor hank
robber, still maintains that he knows
nothing of the robbery, evidence is
being piled up against him. Since his
arrest Miss Flood, who was alone in
the bank when the robbery was COM
mitted remembers that her first
thought upon seeing a man in the III
rector's room was that he was Karrer
disguised in false mustache and goa
tee to brighten her. Karrer's house
has been searched but no trace of the
money found
The officers are much pleased over
TIE work of the blood hounds. The
bonds followed the trail into Treynor.
go'0g first to the house where Karrer
now odmits he spent the day, and then
IN Karrer'S hOuSa