The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-02-18

he had been in Norfolk the Saturday
that Morrison reconnoitered the Hadar
bank.
An interesting feature of Joyce's ties.
timony was the story that for eight
years he had been restaurant keeper
at SIG KeUkuk la. Judge Van Wagon
en-, one of the counsel for the state,
flashed a photograph of the number,
showing that such number would be
far out in the country. Then Joyce
claimed he had made mistake that
ii was 4t6
William Recs, 70 years old impeaCh.
cd this story by stating that he had
lived in Keokuk fifty.eight years and
that there had never been a restaurant
in the 400 block.
Joyce claimed he came to Norfolk
Friday night in a box car and went
right through to the Junction. G. w.
Landers, NJ. & o. agent here. testified
that freight trains never so to the
Junction.
The case was given to the jury yes.
terday afternoon, following attorneys
arguments. County Attorney Charles
II. Stewart had made the opening state
ment for the state, Judge A. Van Wag
enen making the principal opening ad
dress for the prosecution. II. f. Barn.
hart of Norfolk made the opening
statement for the defense, followed by
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defense. Fred II. Free of Plainyiew
closed for the state
| James Morrison, the other Hadar
bank robber, is already making brooms
in the Nebraska state penitentiary
having been convicted in Judge
Welch's court in Pierce county a cou
pie Of months ago and sentenced to
thirty years in prison at hard labor.
Judge WEIGH presided in this case
also.
The conviction of Morrison and
Joyce brings to climax one of the
hardest fought bank robbery cases in
the annals of Nebraska 1t was almost
two years ago-March 49, 1908, that
the Farmers State bank OF Hadar, a
small town five miles north Of Nor
folk, was robbed and about 1870 TAX
en- out of the vault.
| The only clew left by the robbers
was knife which had been bought
from f. S. South's hardware store in
Norfolk on the Saturday before.
Three men-Morrison, Joyce and Ri
ley-were arrested in Sioux City and
held as suspicious characters. They
had been loating around Sioux City for
some time up until a few days before
the robbery. Then they disappeared
returning the day following the Hadar
robbery, The Sioux City police had
had them arrested before as suspicious
characters.
| Morrison was identified by the Ha
dar bank cashier, Miss Ingler, as hav
ing come into the bank on the Satur
day preceding the robbery to buy a 81
draft. He was seen examining the
railroad tool house, from which the
robbers took crowbars to force an en-
trance to the bank. Mr.. South picked
him as the man who bought the knife
found in the vault NJ. Farley, lodg
ing house keeper in Norfolk, identified
all three as trio who had stayed in
his lodging house three nights just be
fore the robbery. Mrs. Stanfield iden
/ titled Joyce as the man with burned
hand, and Morrison as the man who
came with him at o'clock a. IN. after
the robbery, to get the wound dressed
A Plainview restaurant man identified
the men as having come into his bak
cry just after the train arrived from
Norfolk Tuesday morning and just be
fore the Burlington train left for Sioux
City.
For a year the robbers fought extra
dition. Riley secured his release. Nor
rison and Joyce finally were brought
to Pierce, tried and convicted.