The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-27
HELD UP GUARANTEE STATE BANK IN HOUSTON, TEXAS,
 YESTERDAY.
LOCKED OFFICERS IN VAULT
Robbers Were Dividing the Loot When Surprised by Officers, When Fight Ensues and Three Robbers Are Wounded.

Houston. Texas, Jan. 2G.-F'ifteen minutes after a lone bandit footed tie Guaranty State bank, 3619 Wash ington avenue, this afternoon of nearly $6,000 in cash, Police Detec- tves Binford and Hill were engaging him and two pals in pistol duel in small general store on San Felipe road.
 When the smoke of the pistol fight. during which the detectives emp tied their two guns. cleared three of the bandits lay wounded. only one SC. riously They are now at St. Josephs infirmary, where they doggedly re- | fuse to disclose their identity.
 The trio and a son of the stora owner. Morris Segle. were dividing the spells of the afternoon raid spread out on a bed when the detec- tiyes surprised them Detective Bin ford was first to push open the door into a dingy pocket of a room mid- way from the front of the store
 As he peered in one of the armed men shot a glance at him. and al- most as quickly raised revolver, firing three times in succession while Bnford was reaching for his gul The detectives first shot struck him
 in the thigh and the pistol flew out of his hand
 Seigle leaped to his feet with his hands above his head and moved close to the wounded man At the same instant the other two bandits. who had been lmeelng on the oppo. site side of the bed, drew back into corner and fortified themselves be- hind a trunk
 Hill. with drawn gun. was just be- hind Blnford He turned his attsn- tion to the pair behind the trunk. One raised double action gun to shoot, but Hill's pistol spoke first and the bandits gun was shot out of his hand The other man shot once, when the second bullet from HlPs gun struck him in the abdomen and quieted him.
 Tn the darkness that yelled the room the detectives were barely able to make out the squirming figures or the floor and to all intent they vera attempting to pick up their guns to continue the fight. In this commo- ton the detectives, who are not quite able to explain precisely the details of all the shooting, poured the rest of their ammunition at the struggling bandits, then knocked them out with the butts of their guns
 The holdup of the bank occurred shortly after ? o'clock. Cashier ]. b, Dyer and his assistant J. F. Colga:r, were alone in the bank at the time. The latter was behind the teller's window, while Mr. Dyer sat in the front office reading a paper The front door swung open and as he looked up a man with leveled pistol ordered him and Mr. Colgaa to throw up their hands. Then he commanded them to lie down on the floor faes downward. as he swept stack o. currency and silver from the counter into his pocket
 Turning to the safe, the robber or dered MT Colgan to open it, and with the bandits pistol at his head swung it open. Snatching up $30,000 in cur rency he forced both Dyer and Col gan into the vault and locked the door
 As the bandit left the front door of the bank his pockets bulging witc cash and currency and stacks of sil yer dollars went iingling to the side walk. This attracted the attention of several persons who rushed to the street as the fleeing bandit disap- peared around the corner, currency and silver spillng to the ground at every step.
 The cry of bank robber" soon spread and number of spectators followed the course of the running man to the bayou,
 In the meantime Mir. Colgan, by un- screwing several bolts on the inner door of the vault. managed to throw off the combination and open it. Re- leased, Mir Dyer phoned the police
 Then started the chase that wound IT'D in the hand-to-aand battle in ths San Felipe road store,