The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-05

a woman in the car" he said, al
thought am not sure as to the num-
Der or as to the woman. l believed
one to be a woman py the peculiar
Reward Is Offered.
The robbers, in effecting their en-
trance, smashed a plate glass window
in front of the bank with a revolver
butt Considerable nitroglycerine was
used in blowing open the safe, judg-
morning. The loss is we'll covered by
insurance. "A reward of 800 head
has been placed on each of the robbers
for capture dead or alive.
About 1880 o'clock Tuesday night
A. J. Sutherland, ell East Fifth
street, was stopped at the Crosby
mills on East Tenth street by three
men and woman in a 1-Seated auto
mobile. One man was standing on
the running board with a Winchester
shotgun in his hand while another
had a gun case. They asked the
! route out Of Topeka west on the Gold
en- Belt road. Sutherland reported to
the police this morning and it is be-
lieved possible it might be the same
persons who robbed the st. Marys
bank, who, deserted the 1-seated car
and stole the Burgett Ford.
Best Lived in Topeka.
r.. J. Best, the town marshal Of
| st. !Mary's, who is in st. Francis hos-
pftal seriously wounded, was at one
time a resident of Topeka. While
here hesworked for the Topeka Street
Railway COMPANY At the hospital it
was reported that Best's condition is
still serious.
Mrs. Best, accompanied by a deputy
marshal, drove ito Topeka this morn
ing and hurried to the hospital. The
deputy was still greatly excited when
he arrived
"One of the boys rushed into my
house and told me of the robbery" he
said. II got awfully excited and in
reaching for my trousers grabbed my
wife's leg instead. She is in poor
health and the excitement made her
i'll and it forced me to remain at her
out on the street"
were undoubtedly worn by the man
who blew the safe at st. Marys. The
knees were covered with dust. In
quiries at several Topeka clothing
stores failed to bring to light a dealer
who handled overa1ls of the name
shown by a tag.
No one knows when the Burgett car
was brought back to Topeka but it
was before daylight. The Golden Belt
road into North Topeka was watched
aft er the robbery was reported, as was
the brick YARDS road. But it would
have been an easy matter for the rob-
bers to have crossed the river to Va
lencia and come on into Topeka by
way of Tenth avenue or Twenty-first
street.
TheFord car had been driven in the
neighborhood of seventy-five miles
after it left his hands, according to the
owner. He noted the mileage on the
speedometer Tuesday evening a short
time before he left the car in front of
the Ulamperl store on Kansas avenue.
No one has been found who saw the
Allen. car described by Dick Heitman
in or about Topeka last night. 1t was
not left in any of the garages, but
might have been left in the timber
near the city limits.
There is no proof that the men seen
by Hoffman in the Allen were the
men who stole the Ford and robbed
the st. Marys bank but city and coun-
tv officials believe they have a strong
chain of evidence. There have been
numerous reports that one of those in
the party was a woman. People at
ST. Marys say there was no woman
there, but that one of the men had a
feminine voice. Hoffman says he saw
''Bill'' don a woman's garb at New
man. st. Marys people told Sheriff
Kiene they heard one of the robbers
call the other WIFI or Bill"