The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-11-15
BOY BANDIT IN
SECOND BOLD
BANK ROBBERY
Fatally Shot Himself, When
Surrounded by the Posse
After the Holdup
LOCKED CASHIER N VAULT N
FORMER RAID ON SAME BANK
Wanted Money to Marry Young Girl
and Had Engagement Ring Fasten.
ed to His Wrist Band When Arrest.
ed-Bank Cashier Wounded.

Eudora, Kas.. Nov. 15.-Earl Bull.
lock, who robbed the State Bank of
Eudora October IL, returned Saturday
afternoon at 8 o'clock with a COM
panion, held up the cashier, and
robbed the bank again.
While the robbers were at, work
Fred Starr, assistant cashier of the
kraw Valley State Bank of Eudora,
entered the Eudora bank with the
, days clearing. The robbers shot him
through the jaw.
Grabbing all the money they could
reach the robbers ran out the back
door.
A posse was at once formed. The
robbers fled to the hills west of town.
The posse surrounded them there.
A Fight in the Hills.
A fight took place in the hills be-
tween the posse and the robbers. Aft
er few shots had been fired Bullock
fell with a ball through his head.
The bullet Is supposed to have been
fired by his own hand.
It is believed that Starr, the wound
ed cashier. will recover.
Harry Wilson, son of e. E. Wilson,
cashier of the bank, was in the room
at the time. AS the robbers went out
the back door he dashed through the
front door and into store nearby,
where there were six or eight men.
His cry that robbers were in the
bank brought quick action. Guns
were handy. Each man grabbed q
weapon and started in pursuit.
The Posse I'm Pursuit.
The two robbers could be seen rum
ming towards the hills. The posse
took UP the chase. On the farm of
AL Smith the fugitives were only a
short distance ahead. There Bug-
lock companion, a youth named Me-
Kay, threw up his hands in token OF
surrender.
Bullock fled on. Finding the pur.
suers close on his heels he turned and
fired.
The shots went wild. Bullock ran
again. heading for some timber. As
he entered the woods he came face
to face with John Miller, who was
going towards Eudora from Wakar-
usha. Seeing himself cut off, Bullock
fired twice at Miller, but missed.
Then the robber lodged behind q
tree and disappeared. A few minutes
later there was revolver shot. The
posse ran up and found the bandit
unconscious with bullet through his
left temple. The ball passed entirely
through his head. His recovery is i'm
possible.
Crowd Talked Of Lynching.
A crowd of farmers and townsmen
quickly gathered around Mckay and
began to talk of lynching him
Stephen George, F. A. Smith and
Frank Williams took him and started
down the road on the run to keep the
crowd from carrying out it's threat.
The angry posse pursued. Before
the chase had gone far McKay's pro-
tectors encountered a motor car from
Lawrence carrying two newspaper
men.
Quickly dispossessing the motorists
of their car, the three men put Nc
Kay in 1t and turned the car toward
Lawrence. The mob, finding itself
distanced, returned to Eudora.
Mckay lives in Lawrence. He was
suspected by the police of knowing
where Bullock was hiding.
Bullock, although life was almost
placed in the city hall. A big crowd
surrounds the building awaiting the
news that he is dead.
Around Bullock's wrist was found 8
leather band. Wrapped in it was 8
diamond engagement ring.
Early in October two revolvers were
stolen from hardware store in Law.
renee. Earl Bullock was suspected
of the theft and when a deputy sher.
if went to arrest him he found Bull.
lock had gone to Eudora, a village 8
few miles from Lawrence. He follow.
ed him there, arriving in time to fine
Bullock in the Eudora State banl
talking to the cashier, e. e. Wilson
d. S. Woods, the deputy sheriff, told
: Bullock he was under arrest.
AS Woods turned to talk to VIII.
son, Bullock drew a revolver from
his pocket and forced the deputy sher.
If and the cashier to walk into the
bank vault, which Bullock closed aft.
er them. Bullock then took $500 ant
hurried to Lawrence. Two hours la.
ter after they had been locked ur
Woods and Wilson were released from
the vault.
Woods at once telegraphed to Law.
renee of his adventure, and Wilson
Pringle. policeman, was sent to thu
home of Bullock's mother to see Il
the young man was there. Bullock
had just arrived by train from Eudora
He met the policeman at the door q
his mothers house. A shot from one
Of the stolen revolvers was Bullock'i
reply when the officer told him ht
was under arrest. The bullet strucl
Pringle in the neck. and he died a few
days later.