The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-16
YEGGMEN ROBBANK OF $4,000
GETAWAY WITH PLt'NDER FROM
VIEW WESTMINSTER, n. &.
Chinese Janitor Drops In on the Party and
1sGaEged and Tied y No One Heard
Dynamite shot That Opened safe
All the smau Hills Left Nehind.

An the small Hills Left Behind
NEW WESTMINSTER, p. c.. Sept. i5.-
Five men entered the Bank OF Montrea
here early this morning through the from,
door. broke through the thick meta
coating OF the vault. tied up the Chinese
caretaker. wrecked the cage door. blew
open the safe and took approximately
s3i6.00O in gold and bills. They left
$4,000 in gold on the watchman's bed
where they had piled the loot end abou,
$4,000 more unmolested in the safe
They made good their escape. possibly
down the Fraser River ip q launch or else
by automobile to Vancolver.
There was S35O, 900 in the bank safe
Chief Of Police Bradshaw believes the men
would have taken 1t all IL they could have
carried ii. As it was they took all they
could carry away. leaving silver and not "a
OF small denominations as we'll as damaged
$500 and 81 900 bills lying around the floor
and on tables.
The first known Of the robbery was when
the Chinaman appeared AT the police sta
tioh at $50 o clock and gave the alarm. He
had managed to loosen his bonds after the
robbers departed Chief Bradshaw hurried
to the bank, and all the available police
officers were pressed into service. but
the only clue obtainable was that given
by the Chimaman. From the thorough
ness OF the job and the tools used the police
believe that a gang which has recently
been at work in Vancouver turned the
trick here,
The Chinaman. who il sort Of janitor.
snH AE al II
up the bank offices. He found the rob-
bers at work. Before he could give an
alarm he was sandbsgged. gagged and
tied to a chair. Then the robbers pro-
ceeded to collect gold and bills from the
vault. They left the building before s
O clock. An automobile stolen from
lrapp's garage was found broken down
thought the yeggs attempted to get away
in the machine. but had to abandon it.
Usually there is a night watchman on
the premises; last week he went on vaca-
ton. Evidently the robbers knew this.
The loot was tied up in his room and
blankets from his he'd were used to deaden
the noise OF the explosion.
The Chinaman says he opened the front
door OF the Office on Columbia street,
using his pass key. He was seized at once
by n large man and two others came in
moment later.
III you make noise will kill YOU" said
the large man and the frightened China
man did not make sound The smaller
men gagged the Chinaman with his own
They tied his feet and
hands. took him to the basement and tied
him to post. 1t was two hours before
he managed to free himself. He says he
saw only three men. but he believes at
least two other men were engaged in the
This theory is accepted bv the
police. who think at least two men acted
as lookouts.
The vault had been blown before the
Chinaman's arrival. From the front
main Office and assembled the stairway
to the room Of the watchman, who In also
a clerk in the bank. With a pick the
tore hole through the bricks
around the vault. and with the same
tool broke the cast iron lining. The
iron was not heavy. and il could not
have been more than twenty minutes
work before the burglars had got into the
vault in front Of the great steel doors OF
the safe
The hole through which they crawled
into the vault they plugged With bedding
This must have deadened the sound Of
The dynamiting, Tor no person has been
'ound who heard the explosion. A
policeman during a good deal Of this
lime was in the next building not more
han twenty Yards away and heard
nothing: The police station is not more
han twice that distance away.
Three hundred and fifty thousand dol
ars. all in neat piles OF gold and silver
md bank notes was in view when the
'obbers had blown the door open. All
his money was carried into the sleeping
Dom Of the absent clerk and bundled
10 for removal