The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-09-24
Bankers Association, Forced to Action
by Bold Up to Date, Outlaws
Doesn't Use Rough Frontier Term
but Meaning is Same.

ago there was a most successful dep
uty' in Kansas. He belonged to the
'go-gettem' rather than to the mod
ern or magazine style of deputy
United States marshals. Every now
and then he started on the trail of
some fiend who had been sticking up a
bank or making faro dealer take
long, quivering shifts at the bouquet
end of six shooter. And just as like
as not he would return empty handed
, bat satisfied. His papers would be
turned in indorsed in this fashion:
"This man died while l was serving
the warrant"
Frank Albright, who used to orna-
mcnt Wichita and points West, and
who was, when last heard from, in
command Of fleet of lumber wards
which own Cleveland as their home
port, rode with this deputy" several
times. He finally gave up the deputy
business because some of it's more ma
terial features got in the way Of his
aesthetics. Things happened at times
said Albright, that were really grating
There was the occasion, for example,
when this deputy laid out in the brush
for several days and finally got his
man when that misdcmeanor came
sneaking in to get Il drink at the
spring.
Sought His Cash Reward.
1T was hot weather." said Albright
SO the deputy just cut off his out
casts head and rubbed little salt on
it and put it in a sack and started
for town to cash in on the reward
The State paid dead or alive in those
dear bygone days. When he cot
right near Wichita his horse went
lame on him and he turned it loose and
started to walk in. But by and by he
caught up with Il farmer driving a
load of hay and he climbed ND on top
with the granger
What you got in that there sack,
Alister?' asked this inquisitive sod
manglcr. And the deputy, being a lit
tie cross that morning, what with his
, morse going lame and everything, he
Just united eae mouth of the sack
) ana picked the sack up by the bottom
ana spilled that saltcd head onto the
! hay III front of the farmer.
! He never uttered a word" the
deputy told Albright later. No sir, it
was right queer. He never uttered
word. He just sort of spread out
his arms and he skinned away from
there, like right worried duck.
reckon it was~300 yards before he let
gown his legs and went TO running"
Reward Recalls Old Days.
The old days are recalled by the
recent action of the Kansas Bankers
Association in Offering Il reward of
$4,000 for the capture and conviction
OF each individual engaged in bank
robbery. The industry as developed
in Kansas calls for crew of fouu
men. Two do the actual sticking ur
OF the bank officers. one acts as lock.
out, and the fourth is ready at the
wheel in the automobile. So that
lucky people who can drop the butter
| fly net over a quartet of bank rob
bers in Kansas might conccivably cash
in to the extent Of $4,000.
Volunteer robbcr catching have
been few and realized that it is Il
civic duty to throw bank robbcr and
st on his head if he is detected in the
pursuit of his nefarious arts, but the
trouble has been that the average
bank robber fights quite up to the
very high standards Of the old James
and Younger days.
Three men robbed bank at Bailey
Vile and two Of them unexpectedly
ran into Kansas City policemen. The
two were shot. SO were two of the
three patrolmcn. A svool-pigcon tip
ped off the fact that his two partners
planned to rob a bank near Tulsa. A
posse waylaid the robbers, but they
killed one officer before they died.
zone man might have escaped, but
he tried to help his desperately
wounded companion away" the news
reports stated.
! Many Kansas Banks Robbed.
twenty-five Kansas banks have
been robbed since the first of the year
In only one case were the robbers
captured, and that was when the Kan
sas City officers accidentally ran
afoul of the Baileyville group, Okla
homa banks have likewise suffered. So
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