The weekly soliphone., 1915-01-08
DETAILS OF ROBBERY
OF LITTLE ROCK BANK
Three Well Dressed White Men Pull
Off Bold HOldup, Securing
$4,000 in Money.

Little Rock, Jan. 5.-The boldest
and most daring daylight robbery
ever witnessed in this section oc-
Cured at o'clock yesterday after
noon, when three white men entered
| the Central Bank and Trust company
on Sixth and Louisiana streets and
carried off $4,000 in gold and cur
rency after imprisoning the teller,
cashier and stenographer.
T. E. Hale, teller, was engaged in
counting money in his cage when the
bandits entered the bank, one of them
asking for change for IS. AS Mr..
Hale reached for the money to ac-
commodate the man, large blue
steel automatic revolver was whip
ped out and he was told to keep
your hands down." At the same
instant the two other men had COW
cred Cashier e. e. Walden and Miss
Lucille Walden with automatics, and
all three were ordered to go back in
to the open vault and fall on their
faces. Miss Walden, thinking the
whole affair joke, laughed and
refused to comply. She was soon
convinced of the seriousness of the
holdup being staged by these three
we'll dressed men, and with her un-
Gle, Mr.. Walden, and Mr.. Hale, she
complied with the request. The ban
dts locked the door of the vault and
made away with their haul.
Five minutes afterwards T. B.
Ford, in charge of the insurance de-
partment of the bank, and Book
keeper j. d. Sullivan returned from
luncheon, heard the cries of the i'm
prisoned trio and released them.
Cashier Walden made the follow
ing statement relative to the rob
berry:
81 was sitting at Miss Walden s
desk, showing her how to make up
statement, and was paying no at
tention to anyone who came in, not
even noticing that the three had en-
tered" he said.
"The first thing l noticed was
when one of them showed open the
little gate that separates my desk
from Miss Walden's. | looked up
and the fellow was standing about
halfway in the gate with a gun point
ed right at me.
For the life of me | cannot tell
exactly what he said. 1t seems to
me that he told us to throw up our
hands and something to the effect
that you are being robbed, and | be-
lieve he said we want your money
Anyway, he made us lay down on the
floor | started to follow instruc-
tions. Miss Walden said my only re-
mark was don't shoot but l don't
remember what | said.
"She merely laughed when the fell
low pointed IHG gun. COlQ ner 10
lay down and she laughed again, and
then l took hold of her and made
her lay down. l did not pay much
attention to the other fellow who
was behind the one that was point
ing the gun at me. They made us get
around behind the counter and lay
face down.
'They were swearing and talking
all the time and / can't remember a
thing that was said.
1.-The next command was from two
of them. They told us to get up and
get in the vault. ! hesitated and one
of them almost shouted, Get I'M
We went in where Hale had gone and
they locked the vault door behind
US"
Mr. Hale, teller, described the
bandits as we'll dressed young men,
two of them of medium height and
the third short and heavy set. The
short bandit wore gray suit. The
others wore dark suits, one of which
Mr.. Hale thinks was dark blue. All