The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-12-22
BANKER VICTIM
OF BANDIT GUN
Shot Through Body in Running
Fight With Masked
Robbers.
CHI HAPTER OF CRI ME

Carlisle. Ind, Dec, 22.-Ezra Lat
shaw, bookkeeper for the Peoples
state bank here. is today suffering
from n bullet wound through the body
as result Of a running fight with two
unmasked bandits who robbed the
hank OF more than 5000 after forcing
hank employees and customers into the
vault late yesterday, Latshaw. re.
turning from the postoflice, witnessed
the hold-up through window Lat
shaw was seen by the bandits. who
hastily forced the five persons In the
institution into narrow space within
the vault. the inner door of which they
seized loose cash and fled for an auto
mobile. while Latshaw. who had oh
tained rifle at n hardware store.
opened fire. I.atshaw was felled by the
return hre. Perry Wolfe, a farmer,
then fired six shots at the tugitives.
one OF whom is believed to have been
wounded.
ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE.
=. Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 22.-Mrs. Will
liam Kelly and Bertha Dunn, two
young women who were arrested for
shoplftmg from n local store, attempt-
ed bold escape from the, city Jail ear
" this morning by setting fire to the
building.
About 2 am. Patrol Driver Patton and
Emergency Officer Eagan heard a noise
as II some one was scrapng at the
wall IN the real, OF the lookup. They
investigated and found Mrs. Kelly on
top OF the radiator in the women's cell
on the first floor attempting to pry the
bars Off one Of the rear windows,
Ihey took the woman in charge, and
while passing through the han be-
tween the. office and the cells the Off
GERS smelled smoke coming from the
ht,iI l,nxf
rushed upstairs into the detention room
where the Dunn girl was kept. and
found the room in flames. The girl
was attempting to dig her way out
by means OF large screw which she
had found in the wall.
Ihe fire spread from the detention
room to the third floor into the court
room and judges office before flremen
from the adjoining fire hall could ex-
tlngulsh the flames. The damage was
estimated at $4,000.
Itinerary Of Tour.
lily detectives who arrested Mrs.
William Kelly and Miss Bertha Dunn
this week on a shoplifting charge have
FOUND map in their baggage showing
their itinerary, The officers say the
women have visited the following cities:
Kansas City, Joplin, Springfield. Mo. !;
Mlttie I1dI,. Rock. Memphis; Birmingham,
Montgomery, Macon, Atlanta, Chatta-
nooga and Knoxville.
House Wrecked.
tuscaloosa. Ala, Dec. GA house
occupied by negro nonunion miner at
the Searles coal mine, of the Alabama
company, was wrecked by dynamite
last night according to reports reach
ing the office of the sheriff here and
me military guard on duty in the dis
trict. No one was injured
Atlanta Hold Up.
Atlanta, Ga, Dec. 22.--The long list
OF hold-ups in Atlanta recently was ac-
centuated last night by the murder of
carr Kappold, A, q grocer at the cor
ner OF Sims and Mary streets, when
three masked negroes attempted to rob
the store. Rappold resisted and he
was shot with a Winchester rifle. The
bandits then fled.
Prison Sentence.
Young and Cecil Heffner were each
sentenced to fifteen years In the state
prison and Dock Heffner was sentenced
TO seven and half years for the mur-
der, OF Glenn Lippard, near Hickory, by
Judge Shaw, this morning.
The jury late last night returned q
verdict of second degree murder.
In pronouncing sentence, Judge Shaw
said he believed the verdict should have
been first degree, and said the trial
brought out "a horrible state OF affairs
existing In lower Burke and upper Ca
tawba counties" Dock Heffner was
given the light sentence because of his
youth.
Appeal was taken by the defendants,
whose bonds were set at $4,000 each.
Charges Of perjury will result from
the trial, according to the solicitor.
Got 50 400.
Detroit, Mich, Dec. 22.-Three
masked robbers held up the cashier of
the Clio bank, Clio, Mich, near Detroit,
today and escaped with $9,4OO in cash.
according to telephone messages from
Flint to the Detroit police.
Collector Held Up,
Detroit, Mich, Dec. 22.--Armed ban
dts late today held up collector for
the Atlantic & Pacific tea stores and
robbed him of $2,4O0.