Omaha daily bee., 1921-12-24
IPOsseCiives
Up Pursuit
OF Bandits
Pisgah Bank Robbers Now
Conceded by Police TO
Have Made Clean
Getaway.
Loot N early $1,000

Bandits, who yesterday morning
held up and robbed the bank at Pis-
eah, Ia. OF nearly $4,000 in cash and
liberty bonds have made clean get
away. police conceded last night.
Posses which have been securing
the county all day. dispersed last
night and returned to their homes.
satisfied that further search would be
useless.
The big touring car in which the
bandits sped after the robbery was
found abandoned on the low river
road at a point on the Missouri
known as THE Narrows,"
Wore No Masks.
The robbery was staged in day
light.
Shortly before 1880 yesterday
morning big touring car with live
men in il parked in front OF the Pts
gah bank. The driver remained at
the wheel. the four others sauntered
into the bank. They were not
masked At signal from one, evi-
IDENTIFY their leader, all drew pistols,
covered the cashier. J. {. Barker, his
assistant, d. l.. Smith. aud three GUS
toners, driving them at revolver
point to the rear room. Then they
searched the safe and swept currency
from the teller's shelf into bag
formed by tying the legs OF pair OF
overalls. They ran from the bank
and sped south.
Bluffs Police Give Chase.
, Alarm was sent to the Council
Bluffs police few minutes after the
robbery. The sheriif's Office was no
titled and officers from the police
station and court house were sent III
two automobiles north along the two
main roads leading out OF Council
Bluffs.
Police Judge Frank Capell, Police
nlen Walter Brown, and Ed Barrett
and Chauffeur Anderson were in the
machine sent out from police head
quarters. All were armed with high
powered rifles. They followed the
bottom road along the river bank to
Crescent, near where they cncoun-
tered the bandit car and gave chase,
The policemen were in Hiyvef
and the bandits easily outdistanced
them in their high-powered touring
car. Waiter Brown shot twice at the
fugitives, both bailets penetrating the
rear seat. 1t is believed that one OF
them may have struck one Of the
robbers.
Police believe that the robbers
either crossed the Missouri river into
Nebraska at point near where they
abandoned their automobile, or that
they walked south across the hills
and are i'll hiding in the vicinity OF
Mynstcr Springs, just north OF
Council Bluffs.
Two Are Identified.
Two OF the FIVE men in the gang
are thought to have been members
of the same gang which engaged
police and railroad agents in a gun
battle at the Lena Schneider bandit
farm on October ID, when Detective
Robert Murray was killed and
Deputy Marshal Elmer Lane was
wounded.
These men are Tom Haley, who
was disarmed by Federal Agent
Sumner Knox in the upstairs room
at the Schneider farm during that
raid and who later escaped from the
place during the battle, and the
Mexican or Italian. name unknown,
who was found asleep in the auto
mobile when officers arrived at tn.
Schneider place. 1t is believed TIE
latter man drove the bandit car yes
terday.
Used Stolen Car.
Three members OF the gang. one
Of them identified by S. P. Wilson
from photograph as Haley. and
another answering a description OF
the Italian driver, held UP Wilson
Thursday night as he arrived at his
home, 220 Fuller avenue, and took
nis car. This was the machine used
Yesterday in the bank robbery. They
altered the license number from AL
)77 to 1907.