The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-04-09
CAVE CITY BANK IS
LOOTED BY BANDITS
Locked President In Vault
And Escaped With
So, 10000

Detectives in high-powered tour
ing cars, armed with rifles and pis-
tolls, we're securing the country north
of Jeffersontown this afternoon in
search of a Buick roadster carrying
two men, answering the description
of the bandits who robbed the Peo-
pies Bank at Cave City Tuesday and
last night stole an automobile in
Glasgow, in which to make their get
away.
Detectives Elvin and Ellis, main
tanning a watch in a big car along
the Bardstown Road, turned into
Watterson's Lane this afternoon for
reconnaissance, but after proceed
ing few hundred yards, tried to turn
around The lane is narrow and in
the effort the car was backed into
ditch and stuck in the mud. AS the
detectives tried to extricate their ma
chine, a Buick roadser passed them
like a flash and was lost to sight in
few moments beyond a bend in
the road.
Watch Shclbyyille Road.
Getting their car out, the two fol-
lowed over the lane to Jeffersontown
and then back on the Taylorsville
Road to Hikes Point, where they
called for Detectives Yourell and st.
Claif, who had been watching the
Dixie Highway in Craig Culbertson's
twin-six Falkland.
Yourell and st. Clair Joined them
and the country was secured for
trace of the car.
Believing the fugitives might be
trying to make the Shelbyville Pike
and drive to Cincinnati, that city and
others along the road to the East
were notified. Officers were sta
toned on guard at Shelbyville, La
grange and other towns.
Bandits Elude Posse.
Glasgow, Ky, April Two bank
robbers who pushed President Sam
uel d. Caldwell in the vault of the
Peoples Bank of Cave City, thir-
teen miles north of here, Tuesday
noon and escaped with $500 in cur
rency, gold and silver, last night re-
turned to Glasgow Junction with a
horse and buggy stolen from a farm
in the knob country, where they had
fled from a posse, and then continued
on their way to Glasgow, where they
abandoned the buggy and stole an
automobile. Here their trail was
lost. In the buggy was found note
which read:
81 have just been footing with you
birds this time. Next time I'll show
you a real stunt. W."
The bandits are said to have been
recognized by Cave City and Glas-
gov Junction residents who saw them
flee from the bank in Ford sedan,
as Tom Claughter, alias c. G, Wilson,
wanted in Alabama for bank robbery
and fugitive from officers here for
several months, and his wife, who at
the time sheriff's posse attempted
| to arrest the man at his home in
Glasgow Junction, held the officers at
bay with a shotgun while her hus-
Fband escaped.
One Bandit a Woman.
Wilson, as he was known at Glas-
gov Junction, was recognized by
several men and DR.. E. d. Turner of
Cave City Several claim to have
recognized the smaller bandit as
Slaughter's wife dressed in male at
tire. She has red hair. An indica-
ton that one of the bandits is a
woman was the discovery last night
by the pursuing posse that the foot
prints of one Of the bandits were
those of woman.
The posse of Glasgow, Munford-
Vile, Cave City, and Glasgow juno
ton officers and citizens who took
up the trail of the bank robbers yes
terday afternoon pursued the flee
ing pair until o'clock this morning,
giving up the chase in the cave coun-
ty, between Mammoth Cave and
Rocky Hill, nine miles south of the
scene of the robbery.
At one time the posse was so close
to them that the two shed their ov-
4 ercoats. They had abandoned a lap
rug in the Ford sedan in which they
escaped from Cave City, bu. not a
penny of the stolen money was at any
time abandoned