The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-27
TWO EXPERT YEGGS
SOUGHT FOR BANK
.JOBAT COLL|ERV|LLE
Pair Spent Several Days
Around Town Getting Lay Of
Things Before $75, 900
Robbery, Officers Theory.

That master yeggmen, if there be
masters in that craft. planned and car
ried out the robbery of safety deposit
vault of the Peoples bank, Of Collier
vile, early Thursday, securing Liberty
bonds and other valuable negotiable Sc
curities, jeweiry and valuables to the
estimated value of $4,000. is the theory
OF Sheriff o. Fl. Perry, police officials
and private detectives working on the
case.
Two men who spent three cor four
days in the Memphis suburb Fabout a
fortnight ago, are being sought. They
are believed to be expert cracksmen
and officers of the law hold the theory
that they may be the perpetrators of
the robbery of the Frisco railroad safes
at Marion, Ark, recently and other late
| jobs in the Memphis territory. One Of
| these men represented himself as a
salesman fer burglar alarm and was
seen frequently about the bank. The
other represented himself to Mrs. b. +.
| Branch, postmistress, as a detective for
the federal reserve bank in search of
! a, man suspected of having raised a
check from 81 to 30. After a couple
of days the man told the postmistress
| that he had located the suspect and
would be back that afternoon to go out
on a certain rural route with the car
| rier to the place where the man lived.
| He never returned.
/
burglar alarm salesman was a tall
| heavily built man with dark brown
/ eyes and hair, about 40 years old and
| was apparently the leader according
| to the postmistress. The other man,
a slender blue-eyed, light-haired nan
4 about 80 years, showed her number
| of photos of men he said were wanted
for various crimes. Both men were af-
| fable and had the manner and dress
of well-to-do business or professions
men.
/. Officials of the bank do not definitely
recall either of the two men, but d.
remember that a man representing him
self as a representatives, bankers
association was in Collerville recently
also burglar alarm salesman, but a.
such visits are not unusual little at
tehtion was paid to them.
The postmistress and attaches
of the bank both insist, however, tina
at no time did they actually see either
of the men about the vault where
| safety deposit boxes are. One of thu
men talked to the postmistress in tht
directors room at the rear of the bank
but there is dead wall between tina
room and the vault
Sheriff Perry visited Collierville agar
Friday and Is doing everything in hi
power to run down the cracksmen. Thu
sheriff is of the opinion that the mel
drove to Memphis in high powered
automobile Immediately after the rob
berry. Residents of the town wer
aroused by the sound of such r. ca
the morning the robbery occurred bu
at the time attached little importance
to it.
A piece Nof cloth, apparently torn from
the trousers of one of the men, wa
found at the blacksmith shop of An
drew Aldrich, negro, which was broker
into and tools used in breaking int
the bank and the safety deposit boxes
identified by the blacksmith, are tn
only tangible exhibits upon which tn
officers may base clew in their pur
suit of the robbers.