Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-16
j, 100000 is LEFT BY BANDITS
$40, 1000 in Gold Found Piled on Bed
in Room.
THEIR MACHINE BREAKS DOWN
Disabled Automobile in Front of
YIN. C. A. Building.
CHNAMAN GIVES THE ALARM
Three Hundred and Twenty Thou
sand Dollars In Gold and Bills
Secured and Carried Away
by the Robbers.

NEW WESTMINSTER, B. c., Sept b.
At an early hour this morning. three men
entered the Bank of Montreal here, by an
unprotected little window in the rear, dug
through the brick wall into the vault
wrecked the cage door and blew open the
safe and took approximately $4,000 in gold
and bills leaving $4,000 in gold on the bed
where they had piled their loot and about
$4,000 more unmolested in the safe and
made good their escape
The first known of the robbery was when
q Chinese care tsker appeared at the
police station at about 30 O'Clock and gave
the alarm. He hsd managed to work his
bonds loose after the robbers had departed.
The only clue obtainable was that given
by the Chinaman
From the thoroughness of the Job and
the tools with which the work was done
the local officers believe the same gang
which has been at work in Vancouver
turned the work here
It is impossible 20 say just when the men
effected their entrance into the bank, but
It is presumed that il was some time
about o'clock this morning for when the
Chinese janitor arrived shortly after 4
o'clock to clean up, he found the three
men had been doing a little cleaning up on
their own account and before the China
man could give the alarm, he was sand
bagged, gagged and tied to a chair. Then
the robbers proceeded to collect the gold
and bills from the vault and left the build
ing some time before S o'clock. taking
mora than a quarter OF a million with them
leaving about 10000 in the vault behind
them
That the robbers are still in the vicinity
is apparent by the finding of a disabled
r.
age in front Of the Young Mems Christian
= association building. 1t is thought the
yeggs started to get away in the machine
and had to abandon 1t.
Usually there is a watchman on the
premises. but last week he went on his
vacation.
1t Is evident that the robbers knew Of
this for in his room the loot was tied UP
and blankets from his bed were used to
deaden the noise OF the explosion
After q survey by bank officials soon
after 10 o'clock this morning, it was Of
fieially stated that the robbers got away
with at least $S2oyOoo.
Gagged and hound Chinaman.
Chong Kong, Chinese earetaker, about 6
o'clock came running to the police station.
less than twenty-five yards from the bank
crying that the bank had been robbed. He
said that he had entered the bank at 4.1O
o'clock this morning, This statement is
corroborsted by a policeman. The China
man said that he opened the door at the
~front office. using the pass key. He had
no sooner set foot inside when he was
seized by large man and two others a
moment later.
IT you make a noise l will kill you,
said the large man and the frightened
Chinanian did not make a sound. The two
smaller men gagged the Chinaman with his
own handkerchief They tied his feet and
hands and took him to the basement. where
they tied him to a post It was not until
two hours later that he managed 10 free
himself and get out
The Chinaman says that he saw only the
three men, but he believes at least two
others were engaged in the robbery. It lis
certain that the vault had been blown
before the hour the chinaman arrived
From the front door the robbers evidently
had crossed the main office OF the build
ing and ascended stairway which led to
the room Of one OF the clerks. who usually
sleeps in the bank. This young man, how
ever, was on his vacation and there was
no person on the premises.
BY means OF a pick the robbers tore
away a hole through the sides of the gem