Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-10
BANKER WAS GAME
IN. FACE OF DEATH
Lunatic Threatened to Blow
Up His Office.
HELD A DEADLY BOTTLE
Prospective Victim Took Him Out
to Breakfast.
DETECTIVES THEN NABBED HIM
Lunatic Makes an Assault in the
Castle of King Haakon-Mon-
arch Was Absent.
HELD A DEADLY BOTTLE
Prospective Victim Took Him Out
to Breakfast.
DETECTIVES THEN NABBED HIM

A man. supposed to be luna
tic, appeared at the Merchants
National Bank in Omaha this
morning and, producing bottle
supposed to contain nitroglycer-
in. threatened to blow up the in
stitution If he was not given
5000. The bank president. after
talking to him. persuaded the man
to come out to breakfast. While
at the table in a cafe he was cap
turcd and disarmed.
OMAHA Neb.. March 10.-At 10 o'clock
this morning a man named ]. j. Fec. en-
tered the Merchants National Bank of
this city and demanded a large sum of
money. at the same time displaying a
bottle believed to contain nitroglycerin,
and threatening to blow up the bank if
his request was not complied with.
The man entered the bank soon after
the doors were thrown open, and asked
TO see Vice President Luther Drake in his
private office.
Mr.. Drake seated himself opposite the
manner about having had 5000 in the
National Bank of Commerce in Kansas
City when that bank failed.
And since all you fellows are in together
you had just better hand me over my
money or I'll blow you and this bank and
al of us to H. suddenly said the fell
lon ing
tanning thick yellow liquid.
Don't you make move. This is filed
with nitrogIycern. If you move you are
a dead man.
Drake Was Cool.
"You don't want to die yourself, do
you?' coolly asked Drake.
'Oh, yes. / came in here ready to die
responded the stranger, but when l die
I'll take everybody in this building with
me"
We'll. I'll go and get you the money"
said Drake. rising from his chair.
sit down. said the man. IF you get
up again. without permission I'll just drop
this bottle. You know what will happen
Drake sat down.
Drake then told the man he would talk
IL over with him and the stranger ac-
cepted all the time keeping the bottle
Noticing that the man was thin and
pinched, Drake asked him if he was not
hungry.
Il have been studying over this mat
ter for several days and have not eaten
thing for forty-eight hours was the
response.
Took Him to Eat.
We'll. let's go have a breakfast and
talk this over" proposed Drake.
rt~y~t h,,f dom try nkaIy
business or you are dead man. replied
the anarchist.
President Hamilton of the bank entered
the next room during the conversation
and heard enough of it TO erTable him to
know what was going on.
AS Drake and the stranger left the room
together Hamilton telephoned the police
station for plain-clotheS men and fol-
lowed. the two men to nearby restau-
rant.
Drake and the man were on opposite
sides of the table when the detective. ac-
companied by Hamilton, entered the room.
Slipping up behind the stranger, the de-
tective pinioned his arms and relieved him
of his bottle before he knew what was up.
He was then taken to the police station.
There he refused to talk The bottle was
sent TO a chemist for analysis.
''Shot Up" Haakon's Castle.
CHRISTIANIA. March 10.-A Swede.
apparently insane. fusilladed the royal
castle here with Remington rifle at noon
today. He fired altogether dozen bullets,
several of which crashed through the
windows and imbcdded themselves in the
interior walls OF the castle.
The man was promptly seized by the
police and disarmed. At the police sta
tion he declared that ii was his intention
to kill King Haakon He still had forty
or fifty cartridges in his pockets.
King Haakon and Queen Maud were
absent from the castle