Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-17
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Chicago, May ls.-Fivs "fAshion-
plate" bandits operating In a cham
eloen car that outdistanced all pur-,
suers. wound up q two day tour OF
Chicago and suburbs yesterday by
stealing s64.5s7 from The First Ma
tlonal Bank, a. BOLTON. Ill. They es-
capped by driving into Chicago and
abandoning their auto at Fifty NTH
street and Lowe avenue after all south
side police stations had been notified
Of the robbery and instructed to stop
ell machines coming into the city.
While the expert quintet was making
Its record haul, juvenile understudies
were busy within the city. iimits. Us
Ing a small car, three boy bandits at
tackled girl cashier for the Empire
Grocery company, $40 West Randolph
street and escaped with $1,000 In cash
which she was carrying to bank.
The BOLTON hoIaup was accomplished
with all the perfection CT q five reel
thriller. While an electric burglar
alarm changed on the outside OF the
building. the bandits forced w. II.
Baker. assistant cashier, and Miss
Esther Rieger. "a bookkeeper, TO enter
a coal shed off the counting room. They
locked them in and returned to stun
the contents Of cash drawers anu
safety boxes into handbags. A rail-
road employee entered 10 cash a checA'
he was locked In a wash room.
The quartet then walked out anu
climbed into their machine, In which
the chauffeur had remained. The Dur.
glar alarm. which Baker had manaseo
to touch off ut their arrival was eians-
ing. yillge folks heard 1t and saw the
Ave men dash for Chicago, but none
made an effort to halt them.
The town constable. Fred Wesse, en-
deayored to obtain q description OF the
or One said 1t was blue, another
green another gray. When the car
was found in Chicago it was identtieo
as gray and the property OF A. L. A.
Iais. 5f45 University avenue, VINO hao
reported 1t stolen from his garage laS.
Friday night. The machine was no.
damaged, Illinois license lliSiS Oh
1919 had been substituted. This license
number was stolen from car owned
by S. Lang. 57lS South Wabash ave-
nue..
The first man to enter the bank
after The bandits departure was Albert
Wesse. village postmaster. lie re-
leased the prisoners. President Charies
h. Waterman and Cashier Horace
Holmes were at the c. & h. L. raiiroau
station to receive a consignment OF
$4,000 in cash from the federal reserve
bank. The train was thirty minutes
late, thus saving that additfonai
amount from the bandits.
r The cash taken was in small olils'
making it impossible to trace. LioertS
bonds amounting to $4,000 and nego-
table papers worth $4,000 made up
the remainder of the haul
Joseph Dempsey, driver for Roths-
child & Co., whose truck was one Oh
the five held UP by, bandits Wednes-
day. saw the bandits speed by on their
WY back to the city. He declared that
they were the same who held him up.
The west side payroll theft occurred
on Sangamon street. between Madison
and Washington. Miss Ethel Herman
1924 Greenfield avenue, was carrying
the mercy in company Of Belle FOX
and Sarah Strike. two other employees
Of the grocery company. The car car
rying the three youths drew up at the
curb. One youth ieaped from the car,
struck Miss Herman with the butt OF
his revolver, and grabbed the bundle
Of money. a. AZ
Their car was identified as having
been stolen from E. H. Lorenz. 62s'
St, lawrence avenue. yesterday al
Ninth street and Michigan avenue.