The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
LOOT BANK G $500
pESPERADoES THOUGHT TO BE
TYRo RAIDERS, FACES BLACK
ENED AS DISGUISE.
THEY RIDE AWAY UNMOLESTED
starr Sends Message to Governor
Haskell, Proposing Conditional
Surrender, Which Is Prompt
ly Rejected.

Guthrie, Okla, March ga dis
patch received here last night from
Hoffman, Okla, states that two men,
thought to be Henry Starr and Kid
Wilson. two of the Tyro (Kas.) bank
robbers, Thursday held up the cash
fer of the Davis bank at Hoffman and
escaped with 5000 in cash.
The robbery was committed about
the middle of the afternoon and while
the bandits were seen by scores OF
citizens, they We're heavily armed and
no attempt was made to stop them
until they had ridden out of town. IT,
conceal their identity, the desperad0e5
had blackened their faces, making
positive Identification almost impos-
sible
They rode Ieisurely into the town.
dismounted and hitched their horses
in front OF the bank and entered with
drawn weapons. The cashier, W. =
Davis, and n. f. Evans, first vice pres
ident of the bank, were commanded
to throw up their hands, and while one
of the robbers kept them covered, the
other gathered up all the cash in
sight
Many citizens of Hoffman declare
they recognized the bandits in spite
Of their disguise. and the boidness Of
the holdup indicates the work of such
desperate men as those who robbed
the Tyro bank. eluded a dozen or more
m ha
in the hills near Big Heart, Okla
The armament of the bandits con
sisted solely Of revolyers. no rife
being in evidence While there were
but two who took an active part in
the affair. it is believed that third
waited on the outskirts of the town
with the rifles, prepared to come to
their assistance or cover the retreat
as the emergency demanded
Sam Taxi. city marshal OF HaskeH
Okla. says that Starr and two com
panions were seen riding near an oil
lease, south Of jerks Wednesday. aad
were headed south. This would have
given them time 10 reach Hoffman.
miles away. Thursday afternoon.
The mount of one of the Hoffman
bandits fitted the description in every
detail to the horse ridden BY mem
Der of Deputy United States Marshal
Skagg's posse, taken from its owner
when the man hunters came upon the
desperadoes by an accident in the bet
toms near Sandy Greek earlier in the
week, and were forced 10 surrender
their arms without firing a shot
The bandits, when last seen, were
riding southeast 1t is but five miles
from Hoffman to the Canadian river,
and the road fer the greater part OF
the way is through a heavy belt OF
timber The Canadian bottom is one
of the widest parts of the state. and
is the home OF the Snake faction OF
the Creek Indians If the bandits sue
coed in reaching the bottoms it will
be difficult undertaking to find them
or capture them when found
Posses from Muskogee. Mcintosh
and Hughes counties and two from
Hoffman have started out in pursuit
of the robbers. but late last night had
not been heard from.
Starr. who is a Cherokee indian is
known to be headed fer the Usage Ma
tion, If he is not in hiding there now.
He has sent word TO Governor Haskell
here that he would surrender IL the
governor would agree not to turn him
over 10 the Kansas or Arkansas an
thorities. The offer was promptly re-
jected.
John H. Kane. the county attorney
of Washington county, said that there
is no truth In the report that one of
the Wycliffes Is a member OF the
band