The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-01-14

1.-THE robbers and not whisky haulels
vino had been flushed, The four men
lrscaped.
Harrah. Okla, Jan - Within
TWENTY-FIVE miles OF the capital Of
,Okiahoma @here the Legislators were
lin session, three unmasked bandits
entered the First National bank here
this afternoon looted the institution
of approximately $500 locked b F.
Miles. the president and o. G. Me.
Cmre. the cashier. in the bank vault
and escaped in an automobile which
/ the robbers had left in charge Of
companion Miles and Mcclure with
screw driver liberated themselves
within a few minutes after the bandits
left the building. Ten minutes later
posse in automobiles started in pur-
suit of the bandits, who travelled east
from Harrah
CnanuleT FOSSe starts.
Officers at Chandler, thirty miles
northeast of Harrah, were notified of
the robbery and posse, also in auto.
mobiles. left Chandler, travelling south
in the hope of intercepting the ban
dts.
From Mceker and Payson, east Of
Harrah, reports were received here
over the telephone that two automo.
biles travelling at high rate of speed
passed near those towns, and it is be-
lieyed here that the first automobile
contained the bandits and that the sec.
ond automobile contained posscmen
from Harrah
East of iarrah there are several
townships in which there are no
towns, and it is believed that the
bandits found little difficulty in ehd-
ing their pursuers after nightfall.
Pistols Carried.
The three bandits who entered the
bank were armed only with pistols,
and the fact that they carried no
rifles leads local citizens to believe
the bandits have not been ION the
scout"
1t is believed here that the bandits
recently left some large town and
came direct to IIarrah Officers at
Oklahoma City, Chandler, Tulsa and
Gushing have been notified to watch
all trains, as it is believed that the
bandits may set fire to their machine
| and undertake to reach large town
by means of the railroad.
other Banks Robbed.
Banks at Arcadia, Wheatland, Jones
and Iarrah, in Oklahoma county, have
been attacked by "yeggmen" but the
robbery Friday was the first time that
daylight raiders have visited an Okla.
homa county institution. Harrah is a
town of 500 population on the Rock
Island railroad twentysix miles east
of Oklahoma City.
In 1909 two men were killed during
an attempt to rob the Harrah State
bak, of which i. f. Miles was then
president One of the men. Frank
Carpenter, informed Oklahoma coun
ty officers that he was to participate
in the robbery. and guard was sta
toned around the bank II had been
agreed between Carpenter and the OF.
ficers that he was not to he fired up.
on, and his identity was to be made
known by his place in front OF the
bank building In the distribution of
the woud-be robbers Carpenter was
shifted to another position and was
one OF the two men killed when the
Officers fired at the forms in the
dark
Deputies Ben Moore and r.. j. Helm
went from the shcrifrs office IN an
automobile immediately after the Ilar
Irah bank robbery was reported Ia
take charge of the pursuit of the ban
iiJs Sheriff George r.. lomosu. who
was away from the courthouse on
otbcr work when the report came. no.