The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-01-02
capture BANK ROBBERS
SURRENDER LOOT TAKEN At
CAMDEN POINT, MO-, UNDER
RAIN OF BULLETS.
ONE IS SON OF A FARMER
Lone Adventurer Holds Up peoria
Hotel Clerk and Carries Away
$15O-Battle at Smith
boro, I'LL.

st. Joseph, Mo, Dec. 2S.-Three
young men have been captured by
posse in the woods on the Platte river
near Edgerton Junction and charged
with the robbery of the Bank OF Cam
den Point. They were taken to Platte
City.
The capture was made by citizens
after a night chase northwest into the
hill country.
The bank was looted during the
night by blowing the safe with dyna-
mite The robbers obtained $4,000,
which was recovered after the cap
ture.
One of the bandits has been identi-
fled as Clyde Reed, 25 years old, son
of John c. Reed, wealthy Platte
county farmer, near Edgerton. An
other gives his name as Harry O'Neel.
He is said to be unknown in Platte
county.
Every resident of the town was
awakened between l and a. m by
succession of explosions. A number
of people hurried to the Missouri
Christian college, about 200 feet from
the bank, and under the direction OF
Jack Pullins, a retired farmer, about
a dozen shots were fired into the bank.
After the citizens fired into the bank
another explosion occurred.
About 3 o'clock the robbers were
seen leaving the bank through the
front doorway.
They were at work in the bank
nearly two hours, and during that time
many citizens were called up by Prof.
Barkam, president of Missouri Chris
tian college, over the telephone. They
were afraid, however, to charge the
robbers while at work, on account of
the explosions in the bank. but kept
up desultory firing.
President Barham said that at least
six blasts were fired by the bandit
trio in their endeavor to open the
vault The first of these he heard
| some time after | a. m. Thinking it
was a shot from a gun on the street
| fired by a belated Christmas reveler
he paid little attention to it. At 2
| o'clock he heard two more shots
| when he and his wife, who was also
| awakened went to a window, from
which they were able to see lights in
| the bank.
After the bandits had secured the
money and fed they exchanged shots
with Vice President John Buchanan of
the bank, as they passed his home on
farm south of town.
Cornered in Cornfield.
| At 9 o'clock posse headed by
| Deputy Sheriff Al Turner of Weston,
captured Reed and one of his com
panions in Joseph Herndons cornfield,
about a mile southwest of Edgerton
| Junction. The third member of the
| party is supposed to be still in that
vicinity, and the officers are confident
| he will be taken within a short time.
| No resistance was made by the two.
| The robbers had planted the coin in
strawstcck on George McLean's
farm, and at first Reed and his com
| panion refused to divulge the hiding
place. Threats Of hanging brought
about the desired result, and the mon.
| ely was recovered
While the robbery was done by anna
tours, they did good job in removing
the vault door. Diamond drills were
used to permit the insertion OF nitro
| glycerin and. although it required
many charges to penetrate the vault,
they finally succeeded The vault is
| practically wreck. Windows were
shattered and considerable furniture
in the bank damaged.