The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-09-11
BROAD DAYLIGHT HOLD=UP
BANDITS SECURE SIXTEEN THOU.
SAND DOLLARS.
Two Assistants of Construction
Company are Held up at Parr
Shoals Station.


officials of the ]. G. White Engineer
ing Company at Parr Shoals Station
on the Southern Railway about tWen-
ty miles above Columbia, in broad
open daylight on Friday afternoon of
$4,000.
The money was sent out from the
National Loan and Exchange bank of
Columbia on Southern passenger
train No. 13, of the Columbia and
Spartanburg division, which is due at
Parr Shoals at 2:10 p. m, and was
addressed to J. T. McLellen, superin-
tendent of the J. G. White Construc-
tion company.
The money had been receipted for
by H. w. Mahar, the cashier of the
J. G.. White Construction Company.
A few minutes later as he, with Fred
Bultman, assistant cashier, and J. G.
Joyner, Fairfield county deputy, were
on their way to the Offices of the COM
pany, they were confronted by three
white men, each armed with two re-
volvers.
Deputy Joyner hesitated to raise
his hands and reached for his pistol.
AS he did so he was shot, receiving
painful though not serious flesh
wound in the thigh. Three other
shots were fired, it is said, but they
went wild. The money was in three
packages, one containing $4,000 in
gold. another s12,655 in currency,
and a third filled with s353.11 in
small change.
After the hold-up the robbers
dashed across the railroad and into
the woods on the east side of the
track. The entire plant of the con-
struction company was shut down
that the men might assist in scour-
ing the woods. The searchers were
divided into parties, each headed by
a captain, and as many as 1000 men
are believed to be hunting the rob-
bers.
AS stated above, the money was in
charge of H. w. Mahar, cashier of
the engineering company, Fred Built
man, assistant cashier, and Deputy
Joyner, a policeman at Parr Shoals.
The robbers were also three in num-
ber and had blackened their faces
that they might appear like negroes,
As the bearers of the money were
passing through a railway cut be-
tween a string of box cars and the
side of the cut they were confronted
by the highwaymen and had six pis-
tolls thrust in their faces.
At the command to throw up their
hands, Deputy Joyner hesitated and
made an effort to pull his pistol. AS
he did so he was shot through the
thigh. the bullet inflicting painful,
though not serious, flesh wound. Ma
har and Bultman did not offer resist
ance, it is said, after the deputy had
been shot down. Selling the three
packages of money the robbers dash
ed down the railroad track by the
station and on into the woods down
the Mayo creek.
The Offices of the company are only
about a quarter of a mile from the
station up a hill There is steep
embankment on the west side of the
railroad track, and a stairway leads
to the top of this. AS the three men
in charge of the money ascended the
stairs, they had to pass between
part of the embankment and group
of box cars. 1t was while in this
narrow gorge that they were con-
fronted by three white men, who had
blackened their faces. Each of the
assailants carried two revolvers, and
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the bearers of the money with the
demand that their hands be thrown
up.
Two minutes after the bandits
made off with the money, the whole
camp was thrown into confusion by
the news of the daring deed of the
bandits. The news flashed instantly
to all corners of the camp, and the
700 laborers were at once released
that they might join in securing the
woods for the highwaymen. The
men were organized into small COM
panies, each directed by captain,
and were sent out in every direction
to patrol roads and to keep a sharp
lookout for any suspect.
Telephone messages were sent to
the police department in Columbia
and to Sheriff Mccain of Richland
county for bloodhounds. Richland
county happens to have no dogs OF