The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-02-15
CONVICT C~ONFESSES.
Paddy Carroll Tells How Springfield
Bank Robbery Was Done.


Sioux Fails, S. D, Feb. 1l.-Contrary to
The usual custom Of expert bank Wreckers,
who decline to talk of their exploits and
methods, Paddy Carroll, who with three
companions was recently placed in the
Sioux Fails p~enltcntiary TO serve long
terms for the robbery of the bank of
Springfield, S.. D., on the morning of Oc-
tobcr ) last made a statement for publica-
ton. Himself ana companions secured
the sum of s., 200 in cash as the result of
the Springfield robbery, and escaped for
the time being by selling the team and
carriage of Mrs. DR.. Greenfield, of Avon,
who was visiting in Springfield the night
of the robbery.
CAROLS statement, which throws new
light on many features of the robbery, is
as follows:
l left Parkston On Monday, October 9,
and drove To Tyndal with 4 horse trader.
We reached Tyndall at about 9 o'clock p.
m. AT Tyndall we got hold of a sack and
bought some canned goods, bread and beer.
The horse trader left this stuff under the
railway bridge just below Springfield for
us and drove on across the Missouri and
into Niobrara.
We walked down from TyndaI to
springfield on Tuesday night, stopping at
,McNeill's for a drink. 1t was l that called
for the water at this place. We went
down to the bridge, ate a lunch, went up
to the stock yards and got a drink of wa
ter and then went up town. We waited
49," "'O - 49,
and the TO WI for q while and then went
up town and looked over the situation.
All day Wednesday we hid in the brush
along the river and not form from the
bridge.
Wednesday at about midnight we went
up town and by 2:30 O'Clock d. m. broke
in the front door OF the bank. At first we
tried to pick a mole in the side of the
vault. We soon decided that the would
take 100 long, so we gave up the plant. !
then went to 4 blacksmith shop and got a
ltGTN hammer. we soon had the locks
all off and got at the safe.
gave the safe TWO light charges, but the
heavy one and it was a cuckoo"
We scraped the money into q sack and
found that we would have to have a. team
to haul it out Of town, as it was too heavy
to carry. We planned on crossing the
river, but with the team we would have
to take another direction. so we decided
first one we looked at. but they We're too
heavy. and then we ran onto the Green
field rig and took il.
1t took us just two hours and thirty
minutes to drive to the grove east of Trip.
The team was never put on the run a sin
gle minute. 1t was a good team, in fact
the best it has ever been my pleasure to
draw a rein over.
We were not more than forty minutes in
the bank, and we did not see a single soul.
When the money was dragged to the cor
,ner, while we went after the team. a man
with a siXteen-shot Winchester rifle stood
over 1t with instructions to shoot everyone
that came in sight. This rifle we threw
into Il creek while we drove over a bridge.
In the grove We turned the team into a
fence 50 that they could not get at water
while they were so warm. We then turned
the rig over so that it could not be seen
from the highway.
We got into Trip and under the water
tank in time to catch the early morning
freight. We went to Mitchell and from
there to Woolsey. From Woolsey we went
70 Tracey, Mimi, where we had break
fast on Thursday morning.
We We're all old men and veterans at the
This is believed to refer to .Yorkie." who
was captured in Nebraska / went through
Tyndall and stopped all day at Scotland
on the list of October. I registered at the
Star hotel in Scotland as Geo. Arm
strong"
1 have been at the business for twenty
two years, and as soon as ! am out I eX-
pect to go at it again. Tell Mrs. DR..
Greenfield that we wish to thank her for
The bananas that she left in the rig.