The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-08-11
Bold Bandit
Caught at Sawyer
GLEN JONES, A YOUNG FELLOW.
CAPTURED IN ROOMS OVER FIRST
STATE BANK, AFTER LIVELY EN-.
CONFEDERATION JONES SECURED
THE COMBINATION.

STATE BANK, AFTER LIVELY EN-.
COUNTER-..HOW JONES SECURED
THE COMBINATION.
Glen Jones, with all the evidences
of bandit, was arrested at Sawyer
about o'clock Monday afternoon,
charged with attempted bank rob-
berry. Jones was brot to Minot Sc
curely handcuffed Tuesday morning by
the sheriff and states attorney. The
story of the attempted bank robbery
reads like one Of the Sherlock Holmes
stories and is good one.
Jones, who claims that he is but
% years of age, arrived at Sawyer
some time Sunday, it is believed, and
took up mis- abode in the vacant room
over the First State bank building,
securing an entrance thru the rear by
tearing the screen from the door and
breaking out the glass. Entering the
rooms on the second floor, ne locked
the door securely, and went about his
preparations for the robbery of the
bank, it is alleged, in careful, meth
odical manner. He had secured some
tools from blacksmith shop in Saw
yer, among which was brace and
bit, and with this he bored out hole
in the floor about foot square. He
made no noise in boring through the
boards. He then bored very small
hole thru the plastered wall, just over
the safe, so he could get good view
Of the combination of the big safe.
BY getting an eye close to the hole,
he could see plainly the combination
and as the cashier turned the CON-
bination, he marked the figures on a
perfectly drawn dial. So we'll did he
do his work that he had made but one
error in the entire combination. He
used looking glass and a small erec-
trio searchlight in his Investigations,
It is believed, for these were found
upon his person just after his arrest.
When Jones was arrested, he had =
small piece of fuse, but although it
Is said that he told someone he had
nitro-glycerine in the building, none
could be found. ...s
How He Was Discovered.
Henry Listerud, the cashier of the
bank, had occasion Monday afternoon
to show party the vacant rooms,
and trying to enter the door, he found
that it was locked. A voice from
the inside called: Get away from
that door or I'll shoot your damned
head off, Henry got He reported
the matter to the marshal, Richard
Klimpel, who went to the building
securely armed, and accompanied by
number of the citizens, and broke
in tine door. Jones stood there with
a 45 automatic Colts revolver pointed
at the marshal, and would probably
have fred but he realized that he
could not have gotten away, anyway.
Klimpel ordered the man to drop the
gun and he did so. Jones was then
arrested without any further trouble
and lodged for the night in the Saw
yer jail.
Had he been successful in gaining
entrance to the lower rooms, it would
have. done MIN no good to have open
ed the safe, for there was not CEN,
IN it. The SAWYER State bank has
about completed a new bank building,
and the; money for sometime has been
carried to the vault of the new bank
every night.
Jones was given a preliminary hear
ing before Judge Murray Tuesday at
ternoon, and the evidence was such
that he was remanded to the county
fail to stand trial In district court.
The case is quite strong against him,
but he has employed an attorney, J. ].
Coyle and u preparing to put up
fight. Jones had about $500 In his
pockets when arrested.
The young man - we'll dressed and
appears to be older than e years. He
= not Q bad looking chap. He wore
the handouts just ~ tho he had had
them on before, and It IL believed
that this is not the first time he has
been arrested.
He was seen at the jail by IN m
dependent reporter, but he refused to
say much. He says that he had been
drinking and That he went to the
rooms over the bank to have a good
sleep. He objected strenuously to
having his slumbers disturbed. He