The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-04-12
BANDITS KILL TWO BANKERS
GaIIop Through McKees Rocks,
Pa, After Getting $4,000.
Woman Shot While Trying to Pro-
tect Teller of Looted Bank
Towns in State Of Terror.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Four masked men
robbed the Victor Banking Company,
at McKees Rocks, a suburb six miles
below Pittsburg, and got away with
$4,000, after shooting down and kill
ing the manager and the cashier OF
the bank and wounding three other
people, one woman. The men
stepped from the shadows outside the
bank as those inside were about to
close it for the night, and while two
of the men stopped outside with
drawn revolvers and warned away all
passing pedestrians, the others en-
tered the building and began to shoot.
The men killed we're:
Samuel Friedman, the manager, hit
by three bullets while he was trying
to protect $4,000, which lay on the
counters of the bank.
Ignatz Schwartz, the cashier, died
an hour or so later in the McKees
Rocks Hospital
The injured were:
Mary Enco, employe of bank:
slightly injured trying to save Fried
man and Schwartz
Robert King, citizen; shot down in
street by robbers as they ran with
the plumber; at McKees Hospital; will
live
Andrew Milko, mill workman; hit
by stray bullet
McKees Rocks and Schoenville, an
adjoining town, were kept in a state
of terror for nearly half an hour dur
ing and after the bank robbery, for,
once on their horses, the four robbers
rode up and down through the town,
shooting right and left. 1t was then
that King was shot down and Milko
wounded. They each tried to stop
the wild ride of the bank robbers.
The Victor Bank is situated in
place lonesome after nightfall 1t is
on the dividing line between Schoen-
vile and McKees Rocks, and has done
heavy trade with workmen from the
plants of each town. 1t is a bank for
foreigners, and also has conducted a
steamship agency. Pay day at most
of the works had occurred, and there
was about $4,000 In the bank. Only
$4,000 of it appeared on the counters,
however, the rest being locked in the
big safes. 1t was customary to keep
the bank open until 10 o'clock for
several evenings after pay day, but
business being slow it appears that
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and his cashier, decided to close for
the night about $50.
The two who entered the bank ap-
pear to have walked right up to the
cashiers window and shot Schwartz
down in his tracks, then grabbed the
piles of money, which they stuffed
into bags slung over their shoulders.
Friedman, who was evidently in the
back part of the bank tending to the
big safes, was seen to come rushing
out of the bank after the four men,
and as he paused on the steps of the
bank he was shot dead. Three of the
attacking party appear to have shot
him at once, as he fell dead in his
tracks. There evidently had been a
struggle with Friedman inside the
bank before the robbers got away
with the money, for tightly grasped in
his hand was bunch of bills which
he appeared to have torn from one OF
the robbers.
Mary Enco, who had been en-
ployed as a domestic about the bank
in the day time, was in the neighbor-
hood and she came running and threw
herself on one of the robbers as he
was about to shoot into the body of
Mr.. Friedman as he layon the ground.
The robber tossed her to one side and
ran on