The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-06
ROBBERS KILL TWO IN A BANK
CASHIER AND TELLER SHOT
DOWN DEFENDING CASH.

Thieves After Gettang % coo nhe DacG
ana Psrth ThrOawh rSwu shsStIAg
as CItizens-Three Men wOUnded
Detectives search for ssurderers.
PrrTsBURo. April Sat $50 this eve
ming at McKses Rocks. ak miles below
PittsburG. employees Of the Victor Bank
ina Company were preparing to close
for the night when four men stepped
from the shadows outside.
Two with drawn revolvers warned
away passing pedestrians while the other
two went inside the bank and Opened fire.
samuel Friedman. the manager. was
killed with three bullets. Ignatx Schwartz
was shot through the head. He died at
nsO.
Robert King. a citizen. was shot down
in the street by the robbers a. they ran
with the plumber. He will recover. Andrew
Milko. mill workman. was hit by q stray
bullet. Mary EnOe. an employee Of tho
bank. was slightly injured trying TO save
Friedman and Schwartz
Tonight every detective who can no
spared from Pittsburg and Allegheny
county Ia securing the country for the
four robbers. who mounted horses just
0utside the town with the $500 which
they got.
McKees Rocks and SchosnvilIe. &djoin-
ing. were terrorized for about half an
hour. for thu robbers on their horses
/ rode M and down through the town shoot
ing right and left. Il was then that King
and Milko were shot
! The Victor Rank IN in a locality that h
lonesome after nightfall on the dividing
line between Schoenville and Mckees
Rocks. Il 10 a hank for foreigners and
also conducts q steamship agency.
Last Saturday was payday a. most
Of the works and there was about $4,000
In the bank this evening. Only 5000 Of
IL appeared on the counters, however.
the rest being locked in the safes
II was customary IN keep the hank
open until 10 O'Clock for several evenings
after payday. but business being slow
tonight the manager. who also acted
a. teller. decided 20 close about $50.
The two men who entered the bank
appear to have walked up 90 the cashiers
window and to have shOt Schwartz
Then they grabbed the piles % money
which they stuffed into bags rlung over
their shoulders.
Friedman, who was evidently in the
back part 81 the hank ~ the safe. ran
out Of the hank after the robbers. and a.
he paused on the steps he wa shot dead.
Three Of the attacking party appear to
have shot him ~ once.
There evidsntly had besn q struggle
with Friedman inside tho hank before
the robbers got away with the money
for grasped IN his hand was q bunch of
bills. which he had apparently snatched
from one % the robbers.
| Mary Ence who had been employed as
q charwomRn about the hank in daytime
was in the neighborhood and came run
ming and threw herself on one 81 the
robbss~ as he was about TO shoot into the
body % Mr. Friedman a. he lay on the
ground The robber tossed her To one
side and ran on
The robbers horses were tethered near
the bank and before a crowd had time
TO gather the four came down the street
shooting They took few shots at tho
nfeless body Of Friedman and went on.
Get ont or we'll XIII YOU one shouted
10 Robert King as he stood IN front Of
Green hotei. AI o'her GUESTS hhd ned
indoors when they heard the robbers Out
King stood MS ground ana ~ another
second ne was on the ground WIN three
bullets IN MS body
a little Inrther along Andrew M'iko'
who nan stopped u CAPE az the iss' nd'ns
men, was shot through the oody
within an hour AFTER tue shootins three
AUTOMOBILES hl'ed win os'"ctVcs were
racing from PittsbnrR
The authorities Of Mckees Rocks are
on the opnhion ua' tns roo"ery h'An O''~n
=. -. =, -, -, l.. S.,,,-.4.. :.