Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-17
TOOK ALL CURRENCY IN SIGHT
Was Before Opening Hour, Pulled
Down Blinds and Calmly
Went to Work.
>oers Well Dressed--Cashler and
Other Man Thought it Joke Untn
Pistols Showed i'm Their Faces.

Coheyville, kan April 1.-two
men entered tho Citizens state bank
at Chautauqua, % miles west of cot
feyville, at $3.50 this morning. and
after forcing Cashier c. C. Walter
house and Del Easley. business man,
to enter the vault, locked them in.
secured all the currency in sight.
amounting to about $4,000. and es-
capped into the Usage hills across the
line N Oklahoma. Four posses are
III pursuit and as the roads are mud
dy' 1t 10 believed the robbers will be
captured
The robbers secured but half an
hours start
A DARING DEED.
The robbery was one of the most
daring ever executed in this part If
Kansas, the scene of many bold hold
ups OF the part OF DaItons, Starr and
other gangs of outlaws who from time
TO time have made their rendezvous
IN the mountainous country of nearby
oklahoma. Cashier Walterhouse had
scarcely opened the bank at Chautau-
qua this morning and placed his cur
Tency on the counter ready for the
uays business, when the two robbers
entered. The only other person in the
lace was Del Easley. The robbers,
poth of them well dressed made their
way ltisurely to the cashiers window.
one OF them was a man well-known
about town and he commanded Wat
erhouse and Easley to throw up thor.
naItus' me latter two took the matter
In the light OF joke. The serious in
tention of the robbers was realized
moment later, however, when they
both drew reviewers and pointing
them at their victims, ordered them
to get into the vault. Without fur
tner ado, Walterhouse and Easley
both complied. The robbers quickly
slammed the door shut, and then
ielsurely went about their business Of
looting the bank.
LOCKED THE DOORS.
First they drew down the window
shades facing the street and locked
the doors to prevent Interference.
When they had scraped up all the
money in sight they walked out the
front entrance and up the main street.
one OF the men carried a gunnysack.
Several persons who knew the man
whom Walterhouse and Easley say is a
well-known Crautauqua character
spoke to him In friendly manner.
Nothing IN the appearance of the rob
beers betrayed the part they had Just
played.
A block away they mounted horses
that they had tied at the curbing and
rode of. After going a few blocks from
the center of the town they directed
their horses south toward the Oklaho-
ma Kansas state lime and whipped
them into gallop. The robbery was
not discovered until half an hour later
when j. II. Edwards, president OF the
bank entered his office. After releasing
Walterhouse and Easley from the
vault President Edwards gave the
alarm locally and to surrounding
towns. Within another 30 minutes.
posses had been made up In Chatuaqua
and at Elgin and Sedan, Kas., and
Pawhuska. Okla, all contiguous to the
scene OF the robbery and from three
sides the armed men began hot chase
after the robbers.
ONE RoBBBR RECOGNIZED
Chauutaqna Kas, April I7.-C. c.
Walterhouse. cashier OF the Citizens
State bank OF Chatauqua. which was
robbed this morning by two men,
stated positively that one OF the rob
bers was William Tenant, aged %
years, formerly of Chautauqua aud who
recently escaped from Jail al Nowata.
Okla, where no was being held on a
charge OF horse stealing. Tenant some
time ago borrowed n small sum OF
money from the bank and Mr.. Walter
house said that when Tenant entered
the bank this morning no supposed he
had come 10 renew the note or to take
II up.