Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-07
Shot Miss Blackstone, Though Meaning Only
Brighten Women. Fascination Of Stories Of His
Crimes Kept Him in the BuSiness.-.Run-
ming Down Robbers. Other Grimes.
CHASING BANK ROBBERS.

Pittsburg, April 6-Sheriff Judd II.
Bruff of Allegheny county is holding a
posse of 80 men, armed with riot guns,
loaded with buckshot, in readiness for
instant dispatch in automobiles to the
Steubenville pike. eight miles from
McKees Rocks. where five county de-
tactiycs about noon are reported to
have surrounded the four bandits who
robbed the Victor Banking Co. in Nc
Eets Rocks and shot down and killed
the general manager and bank cashier.
Sheriff Bruff stated that an attempt
to capture the~'aan by an Inadequate
force was out of the question. as the
desperaGoes were heavily armed, ac-
Cording to reports. The robbers are
reported to be hiding in q wood cover
ed hiIlv section of an adjoining county
Pittsburg Pa. April 6-With the po-
lice working desperately to round up
TIE quartz, OF men who last night en-
tered the Victor Banking COS. build
ing at "Bloody Corner Mckees Rocks.
shot and killed the general manager
and the bookkeeper. wounded several
citizens and then escaped with less
than $500 in cash, a statewide dragnet
has Keen thrown out today. and as a
result five suspects are already locked
NJ in the Stowe township police sta
ton and more arrests are expected.
The police are working on the theory
that the holdup was the work of ex-
perienced Yeggmen and not foreigners
or Negroes, as was intimated last
night
From what can be learned of eye-Wit-
nesses to the double killinS and rohpefy
the four men were about even stature
mediumly tall We're white, wore dark
working clothes, black soft hats, black
shirts and masks of black material. Three
of the quartet displayed revolvers, the
fourth attending to the cash of the bank
which lay in piles ON the cashiers desk
usingla small bag to scoop the money W
from the desktop.
President AmshaI Of the Victor Banking
Co. said today
Every little money was secured by the
robbers-less than 800, as near as we can
estimate at present"
The county authorities received word
early today that a horse and buggy had
and has been seen carrying several men,
going in the direction of Steubenville, ..
County detectives have started in pursuit.
The bank was closed today by order of
the officials. The foreign depositors gath
cred around the doors of the institution
and demanded admission. They were told
that their deposits were safe and they
would be paid off later in the day. This
statement did not satisfy them and Wig
orous work on the part of the authorities
was required to uuell the unruly members
of the embryonic mob
The authorities found two small hand
bombs under a cuvert near the bank this
morning. Small Significance is attached
to the discovery however.
Bloodhounds brought from Washington
county were taken to the bank shortly
before noon.
Robert King, who was seriously wound
ed by one of the bandits while running
towards the bank, is in a critical condi-
ton today A post norton examination
of Ignatz Swatz, the murdered cashier,
shows that one bullet entered his head
causing instant death. The body of Sam
ue Friedman, the general manager of
the institution, shows that six bullets
We're fired into his body, only one of
which reached vital part