The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-15
BOY BANDITS
CONFESS PLOT
TO ROB BANKS
Daring Oregon Lads Arraigned
for Raid That Ended in
Their Arrest
Tell of Entering First National
in Oakland, but Were
Afraid of the Job
So pi.eateh o The caIIl

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SAN JOSE. Aug. 14-within SO feet
OF the bank they robbed of s7,315 Fri
day ana 5ust "a hours after the consum-
nation OF the crime. the daring Oregon
lads who gave the names of Fred Carr
and Joseph Willis were arraigned to-
day before Justice of the Peace Thomp-
son of Santa Clara. The youthful
bandits We're taken to Santa Clara in
the same so horsepower Thomas Flyer
as that used Friday in the short wild
fight from the scene of the crime, and
the car was driven by Ray Brown, the
same chauffeur.
The machine covered the same route
that taken Friday. and the boys had
10 pass the scene of the robbery on
their way to the courtroom. The chauf
feur smiled knowingly all the way as
he thought Of the youths who had been
his tyrannical masters for a few min
utes and whom he had put to flight by
ditching the machine.
ATTRACT BIG CROWDS
Large crowds surrounded the county
jail here and the justice court at Santa
Clara and officers at both places had
~
the crowd Of the curious for the sheriff
and his prisoners. The warrant, issued
by Judge Thompson on a charge sworn
10 by Cashier F. A. Birge. was passed
10 the sheriff, who gave il to the boys
TO read.
They perused the document with en-
thusiasm and handed it back to the
court The boys throughout the brief
proceeding gave the same assumed
names they had given the officers yes
terday. Arthur Dorm has been retained
as counsel for the defendants and bail
was fixed at $4,000 in each case The
preliminary examination will be held
Monday morning.
Throughout the proceedings the two
youths appeared the least concerned of
the occupants Of the room. They gazed
about with stolid Indifference.
All through the night and this MORN
ing the prisoners were questioned by
the officers. but stoutly refused TO df-
vulge their names and their places Of
abode
YOUTHS PLOT BIG ROBBERIEs
To Sheriff Langford the young men
made a startling confession today. Joe
Willis said that he and his compan-
ions had planned a series of real rob
berries that would have created a reign
Of terror in financial circles. So far
had their plans matured, they declare
that Thursday, with q hired automobile
awaiting their return, they entered the
First national bank in the business
part OF Oakland and calmly wei ghed
the chances of making their escape
with a fortune.
This Santa Clara robbery was only
an experiment" said the youthful ban
dit. we intended. If il was success
full TO go after bigger and richer In
situations and TO clean up big money
before we were through.
We obtained a machine in Oakland
and had il wait just around the corner
we did in Yesterdays job. Carr and
I went TO the First national about
noon and looked the place over. We
were well armed and if there had not
been so many clerks and so many
people passing outside we would have
held up the cashiers and tellers and
taken the money in sight"
Planned EImhurSt Raid
OAKLAND. Aug I4-That Fred Carr
and Joe Willis, the Santa Clara bank
robbers. had planned the robbery OF
the Bank OF Elmhurst, near Oakland,
is the belief Of Cashier A. F. Horst
man Of that bank He positively iden-
tifes Carr from his picture published
Ia the pa pers as the man who stepped
Up TO his window Tuesday morning
and asked for a roll of new Lincoln
pennies.
Cashier Horstman also says that
Willis stood directly behind Carr in
the bank Not. having the pennies, the
cashier TOLD the men that he could not
comply with their request.
The two boys stood al the window
for at least two minutes. then ex-
changed a glance and, without saying
word, left the building. They crossed
the street and seated themselves in
an automobile which was standing di-
rectly opposite the bank and started