The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-09-27
DlD YECCS
PULLED
moline JOB /
y
lIotor Bandits Of CONNER.
Ill Savings Bank Cap
tured in Toledo.

0ae bandit Is dead and two 9TH
all three identified - Of the
- which At noon on Aug. 3 loot
& the Commercial Savings bank.
1senth avenue and Fifteenth
foet Moline, making . successful
away with $4,000 plunder, are
~ held by Toledo, Ohio. police,
Moving their arrest on Sept IA.
me one was killed in a gun fight
N the police when the trio bat
"a in vain to escape the raid In
ttjch they were taken; another is
~ hospital and the third is in
u 10 lieu Of $4,000 bonds.
following the tracing of the clue
= 400 in travellers checks stolen
4 The Moline bank and later learn
\ 10 have been found In the To-
~ bandits rooms which were
njded, the men have been posi-
Isly identified by police and bank
Dcials of Moline as three of the
6or bandits, who, winning their
ap at guns ends and wounding
haries Mohler in their getaway,
u in q big Cadillac car through
1eIine and Rock Island streets,
hiding a police dragnet by auto
~ seroplane over the entire sew
M counties in this vicinity.
win Re Broughf Here.
The two living suspects will be
tuught to Moline for trial a. soon
\ the necessary arrangements can
H. made. 1t u probable that Ben
min s. Bell, states attorney for
|ilnck Island county. will be in To-
no this week.
H The raid made by Toledo police
" Sept. "A was an ordinary police
"a. such as are frequently made
metropolitan police on houses
pected Of harboring criminals.
is particular raid was made on I
re At 22s Franklin avenue, To-
Two Injured in Gun Play.
Y The men wanted in Moline at
nptekto escape from the Toledo
Vice and it was in the fight that
Moved this attempt to escape that
- Of the men was fatally wound
j and another injured. Names of
- men follow:
Archie James Knerr. 81 years
~; five feet 10 inches tail; died
i the hospital shortly after the
MA.
William Baker johnson, 80 years
~; mulatto; six feet tall; now in
'lspital.
Joseph Forrest, II years old; six
Ut tall; in Jail.
The package Of travellers checks
esnd in the rooms raided by To-
no police were forwarded to the
Nntral office at Chicago Of the
american Railway Express COM
rny, Chicago express ofiicials dis
osered the checks had been issued
n the Commercial bank Of Moline.
The bank was notified. Toledo
Nice forwarded pictures to Mo-
1ae police. The pictures were
own to r. NJ. Johnson, cashier Of
ae bank, to other bank officials,
|and c. v. Swanson and Albert Dehr.
IWho were In the bank at the time
~ NE robbery.
Many Identity Bandits.
These Moliners, who came in
close contact with the bandits. have
nentihed the pictures. Sergeant
Caarles Crell. policeman. who mar
'nwly escaped death while attempt
!as TO shoot the yeggs. has identi-
seo one Of the men.
Y. v. Swanson, insurance man,
vao was slugged and robbed as he
sss about to make a deposit in the
usnk. has identified johnson, the
nt-colored negro. This IL the
n who has been identified BY
sefgeant Grell.
n y. Johnson. bank cashier, hal
neotined knerr and Forrest Albert
uenr ~ho was in J0hnson's office
aen two OF the robbers entered
~ Identified Forrest.
IA amhk Three Yegss 1t Large.
otaer bank attaches who hAvs