The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-02-05
Bandits Wreck and Loot Two Louis
lana Banks.

New Orleans, Feb. Bank ban
dts Friday and Friday night obtain
ed nearly $4,000 from two North
Louisiana banks and created reign
of terror
The first was at noon in the Bank
of Logansport, La, near Shreveport
The second was at night at Winns-
boro at the Winnsboro State bank.
Four persons, two farm boys, were
arrested by posses and have confess
ed to the Logansport robbery, ac-
cording to the police. The bandits
who wore women's stockings with
holes cut in them for masks, have
drawn for the police diagram OF
the place where they hid $1,000.
No arrests have been made yet in
the Winnsboro robbery. The building
was practically wrecked by the dyna-
miting of the steel vaults. 1t is GER
tain that the robbers got more than
500, and it is feared that several
thousand was taken from the demol-
ished vault.
At Logansport, W. G. Cole, H.
Johnson, H. E. Chambers and Sam
Hennegan have been placed under
arrest at points in Louisiana and
Texas and have confessed to the rob-
berry of the bank Of Logansport, at
Logansport, La, yesterday.
Cole was arrested near Joaquin
Texas, Johnson in Shreveport and
Chambers and Hennegan near Tenah
Texas. Cole in his confession to the
arresting officers gave description OF
the place where the $1,000 stolen was
cached in the woods near Logans-
port.
The holdup occurred at noon and
in daring rivaled any ever reported in
this State. Two masked men sudden
ly confronted Assistant Cashier Cal
houn and, when Cashier Price enter
ed, both bank officers were forced
into the steel vault and the lock
turned
The robbers got $1,000 in cur
rency, overlooked $1,000, and walk
ed quietly away. An hour later bank
patrons noticed the bank deserted
and called the police. After half an
hours work the safe was forced open
and the imprisoned bank officials,
nearly dead, were taken out. Posses
were Quickly organized.
/ Hennegan and Chambers are mere
boys. They confessed, police say, to
holding the horse and aiding in max
ing away with the money. Cole, the
third bandit, alleges that Johnson en-
gineered the holdup in 1912.
The masks used by the bandits
were merely women's stockings with
holes cut for eyes. No other disguise
was used it developed Saturday.
Awakening the whole town by heavy
blasts in an attack on the steel
vaults in the Winnsboro State bank
about midnight, bandits made their
getaway with a considerable amount
of money.
1t is certain that they got more
than S10O in silver, but until a COM
plete checking is made of the banks
money the total will not be known
It is feared that about $4,000 in cur
rency was taken from the twisted and
shattered vault.
Sheriff Gilbert, with a heavily arm
ed posse, is in pursuit of the bandits
headed towards Shreveport. 1t is his
theory that the Winnsboro bandits
are not members of the gang that
held up the Logansport bank Friday
Logansport is not very far away from
Winnsboro, however.
A wrench, pick, lantern and lump
of wax used in making a blast on a
safe was found by the sheriff. En-
trance to the building was effected
by a rear door and the yeggs sue
ceeded in working the combination on
the vault door. They were compelled
however, to use four charges of dyna-
mite or nitroglycerin on the inner
vaults.
The bank is one of the oldest in the
State and is fully protected by bur
glar insurance, the officials announc'
ed Saturday.