The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-11-12
BANK ROBBER
SHOOTS TWO.
Cashier Dead and President
Seriously Wounded.
MURDERER IS CAPTURED

Enters Merchants, National Bank at
New Albany, Ind, With Revolver
in Each Hand and After Soaring
the Clerks Into Flight Opens Fire
on the Officials Who Attempt to
Farley With Him.
Louisville, Nov. IL. Garry Faw:
eett, cashier of the Merchants Ma
uonal bank in New Albany, Ind, was
shot and killed and President ]. X.
Woodward of the same institution
seriously wounded by an unknown
man who entered the bank and at
tempted to hold up the officials and
their assistants.
The assailapt, young man Of
about twenty"one, ran quickly to tho
Ohio river and started for the Ken
lucky side in a skiff. The New AL
bany police we're notified and after a
hot pursuit in motor boat captured
him neer the Kentucky and Indiana
bridge and landed him behind the
bars of the New Albany jail.
The robber came to New Albany in
an automobile, the property of Mrs.
Walter Escott, a resident of one of
the most fashionable districts of Louis
vile. The chauffeur. James r.
Tucker. a negro, who was arrested.
declared that the man who did the
shooting took possession of the auto
mobile in front Of Mrs. Escott's resi-
dence and forced him at the point of
\ revolver to drive to New Albany.
Revolver in Each Hand.
; The desperate, who is stranger to
the New Albany and Louisville police,
entered the bank by a rear door, Il
revolver in each hand. He gave the
single commands:
Hands up, everybody! Get into
the vault"
-, There was a rush for safety by the
clerks and several persons who were
transacting business in the bank.
President Woodward, quickly tax.
ing in the situation, advanced toward
the robber and attempted to talk to
him, or, if possible. capture him.
To question by Mr.. Woodward as
to what was wanted the robber re-
sponded with two shots. which struck
the official in the arms and stomach,
1n1icting dangerous wounds.
Cashier Fawcett rushed forward,
but before he could reach the fallen
president the cashier was shot in the
neck and breast, dying within a few
minutes.
The robber, without speaking a
word, walked quickly out of the front
door, dropping one of his revolvers
Just outside the bank building. Turn
Ing the corner to where the automo-
bile stood he jumped into the rear
seat and commanded the negro: "Get
out of this as fast as you can"
Shoots Negro In the Back.
But the automobile stood still, the
negro, thoroughly frightened at the
course OF events, refusing to move.
Without parley the robber jumped to
the ground, drew a revolver and sent
bullet into the negroes back.
An instant later the robber was
running at top speed down the bank
to the Ohio, where he jumped into a
skiff. He had pulled out some dis
lance into the stream before people
on the shore realized what had hap
pened. A dredge boat employee, see
ing the robber rowing frantically for
the Kentucky shore, gave. the alarm
through a megaphone. With stem
torian voice the dredge boat employee
roared up and down the bank: "Catch
that fellow; he's killed a man."
Owners of river craft then engaged
in race for the desperate. The po
lice, however, in a motor boat, kept
in readiness for just such emergencies.
distanced all followers and brought
the robber to bay on a bit Of an isl.
and just south of the big bridge con-
Meeting New Albany with West Louis
Vile. They covered him with revol-
vers and the arrest was made with
out a fight.
A mob formed after the bandits
capture, but by ruse the police gov
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