The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-12-10
BUCKEYE NOTES

Wlnton Place savings bank mere al
noon, Miss Gertrude Balz, bookkeeper,
was struck over the head by an iron
pipe.
The girl, undaunted, arose and re-
newed the struggle. As result she is
in City hospital suffering serious
wounds, but the robbers were forced
to fee with what money they could
grab hastily from a desk.
Miss BALI was alone In the bank at
the time of the attack. Others Of the
bank force we're at lunch.
When attaches Of the bank returned
they found the girl on the floor. When
she began to explain what had hap
pened she became hysterical.
Details of the fight, robbery and es-
cape could not be given by the book
keeper. She merely could explain that
two men had entered the bank, at
tackled her and fed after she resisted.
A few hours after the robbery man
giving the name of Earl Hoffman and
his home as Crescentville, o., was ar
rested in Middletown, o., pending an
investigation. Hoffman Is said by the
police to have asserted he was in Gin
cinnati, but to have denied any con-
nection with the robbery.
Conneaut. - Hands up!" Two
masked bandits screamed this at
the fireman and engineer Of Nickel
Plate freight train in Cascade, Is miles
east of here. The train, which had
slowed to take siding, was brought
to stop and the two robbers mounted
the engine cab. Eight more bandits
rounded up Conductor BiXler, three
brakemen and the flagman and i'm
prisoned them in the caboose. Two
robbers covering the men in the ca
boose with revolvers were left to
guard the trainmen. Six members of
the bandit gang then began a search
for marked cars. With the aid OF a
hashlight they easily found the cars
they wanted to plunder. They had
been marked, supposedly in Buffalo.
Only two cars were entered. They
contained valuable merchandise, most
ly silks, it is said. Railroad officials de-
clined to make public the loss, but it
is said here the booty is valued at sew
eral thousand dollars. At given sig
nal the four men guarding their pris-
oners in the engine cab and the ca
boose backed away, covering their re-
treat with raised revolvers. Then the
order was given for t.Sj train to move.
The robbers escaped.
Toledo. - "a very close friend
of yours is locked up at central
police station and wants you to come
down and bail him out" said a voice to
John A. Scott over the telephone about
l o'clock in the morning. Scott knew
the friend we'll and asked the amount
of the bail.
Send down $50 and you can get him
out" explained the man on the phone,
Il have only $40 in cash." declared
Scott, land If that will help you make
up the full sum of the bail you are well
come to it,"
Fifteen minutes later a messenger
boy called at Scott's house and col.
lected the money. Later Scott learned
his friend had not been arrested.
Denison. - Chief of Police Fred
Miller is near death at his home
and an Italian who shot him and the
latter's companion are in Jail as re-
suit of a shooting affray in front of the
city hall. The trouble came as the
climax to frequent encounters between
the police and Italian bootleggers in
the town. Chief Miller and Patrolman
Culberson attempted to arrest the two
Italians, who we're making a noisy
demonstration on the street, when the
latter drew revolvers and resisted.
Miller was shot just over the heart and
also through the abdomen. Culberson
grappled with one of the men and a
state detective jumped from window
in the mayors office and seized the
other. Miller will die, according to
physicians who are attending him.
Huron. Two bodies were picked
up near the watering trough of
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
railroad. The only means of identifi-
cation were two post cards, one ad.
dressed to Louis Doktor, South Bend,
Ind, and the other written at Carnegie,
Pa, and signed by the. same name. 1t
is believed the men had been riding
the blind baggage of fast train and
were washed off when the engine took
water.
Findlay. - Sheriff Kennedy was
notified of the finding of robbers
loot in a cave at Limestone ridge,
eight miles east of this city. A miscel-
laneous assortment of small articles
was uncovered, which may account, po-
lice say, for many small robberies in
this city the past few months.
Canton. Four robbers stopped
PAU Lawrence of Dalton as he was
driving home on a lonely country
road with $40, the proceeds from the
sale of potatoes. They took his money,
gagged him, tied his hands and feet,
fastened him on his horses back and
set the animal galloping away. The
animal wandered into a farmyard,
where Lawrence was able to attract
the attention of farmer, who freed
him.
Lorain. Suffering Mike!" This
was the ejaculation of burglar
who broke into store on 6th-st. When
the thief landed in a mass of draperies
and curtain poles and wriggIed his
way out of the debris he found himself
in Miss Hila Nichols corset shop. He
hastily made his exit. Nothing was
taken.
Lorain. Andrew Staller aged 10,
shot himself. in the heart. II do
this to give my enemies a chance to
talk he stated in a note. He bade